astixjr wrote:
So I hear plenty of WIXers lamenting the current state of the WIX forums and I sometimes count myself among their ranks but not very often. I'm not sure if the WIX forums are really all that different from what any of us recall but the most common complaint seems to be that few actual warbird owner/operators post anymore. Maybe that's true, I don't know. I certainly know of a few owner/operators who have "left the building" and it does seem like "troll problems" was the single most common reason given.
Here's an idea that would give us all a chance to "battle it out" with the trolls. A sort of "good troll vs bad troll" internet forum boxing ring where we could practice the low art of flaming each other until somebody is declared the winner or everybody just gets bored. It would be kind of like a web based "Donnybrook with John Barleycorn" where a dust-up could be settled with bare knuckles, or in this case, bare fingertips on a keyboard. There would be no rules, no banned words, a wide open free for all. You would invite your foe into a private chat room but it's not a chat room at all, it's a verbal cage match of mixed martial arts in a web forum format. There would be only two conditions, here's the kicker. A) You have to pay a fee to WIX per event and B) No information or reference to the battle could be posted on the regular forums. It would be an alternate internet universe, only accessible via a special WIX wormhole. Once you cross the event horizon of the battleground, nothing you say can come back into this universe. If you violate the information paradox rule, you are banned from WIX FOREVER! Have you ever heard a bartender tell two guys who are about to duke it out to "take it outside!"? Well, this would be the same thing and by the way, standard 19th Century dueling challenge rules apply. If offered a duel, you must accept. You can bring a second plus as many spectators as you wish. Oh, and by the way, the spectators can't take part in the duel and they must also pay WIX a fee to watch the match.
So, what do you all think?
*I get Eric Downing as a 2nd in all my duels.
I agree something needs doing by the mods besides slapping people who come to the sites defense against a very occasional poster who wore his cranky panties and locking the thread, but NOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT ALL THE FRIGGIN' SPAM. There's enough SPAM on all the forums except the HANGAR to do at least two more Monty Python musicals but is anything done to delete them??? NOOOO, particularly this kitchen and cabinets individual of questionable judgement who's apparently got a bad case of digital diarrhea.
Before you try to take a poop in my Wheaties, why don't you MODS do YOUR tasks and tidy up the rest of the kitchen?