"SD is not meant to be a place where politics and these biases bare sway in any real fashion. I[t] is a place where we want to try and discuss the technologies and the capabilities of various military and defense issues, their technology, their cost, their capabilities etc. It is also a place to be able to discuss certain countries and their beauty, pictures, and non-bias oriented cultural things...bu[t] principally defense technologies.
Common sense will tell you that if people get the idea that one or the other bias is acceptable that people will come here and invite their friends who share and push those biases to come here...and then SD will no longer be a Military Defense Forum...it will become a political forum full of flame wars, attacks, insults, and degradation as the sides line up against each other.
We have have attempted to keep that type of thing from happening and to stop such bias on both sides. I have tried to do all in my power in my time here and will continue to do so. It is what we must do if we want SD to remain the preeminent place on the web where people of all sorts come to discuss defense.
As long as people follow the rules and do not push their bias, or try and insult of others who may feel differently, then people from Pakistan and India, people from Saudi Arabia and Israel, people from China and the the US, or China and Japan, etc., etc. can coexist on this forum and get a lot of pleasure and a lot of goo[d] information from one another.
So the rules are written to forbid politics, and insulting bias activity, etc. and we have policed the biases and will continue to do so.
It does not mean people do not have them...of course they do. We are asking people to be mature about them and not come here to express, push, or lift up such biases over other people." - bd_popeye, 2014
Why can't we abide by the rules as they are written out that so many seem keen to flout without recourse?
I get that moderating doesn't pay, but some moderator choices are fairly questionable! Should they not act more widely as paragons for forum behaviour?
Plenty examples I've personally seen make a mockery of the system in place.
Can we not try get this place back to where it was? So many easy(ish) changes..
I know they're busy and not paid to police things here but where are the mods!
P.S. containment never works
Common sense will tell you that if people get the idea that one or the other bias is acceptable that people will come here and invite their friends who share and push those biases to come here...and then SD will no longer be a Military Defense Forum...it will become a political forum full of flame wars, attacks, insults, and degradation as the sides line up against each other.
We have have attempted to keep that type of thing from happening and to stop such bias on both sides. I have tried to do all in my power in my time here and will continue to do so. It is what we must do if we want SD to remain the preeminent place on the web where people of all sorts come to discuss defense.
As long as people follow the rules and do not push their bias, or try and insult of others who may feel differently, then people from Pakistan and India, people from Saudi Arabia and Israel, people from China and the the US, or China and Japan, etc., etc. can coexist on this forum and get a lot of pleasure and a lot of goo[d] information from one another.
So the rules are written to forbid politics, and insulting bias activity, etc. and we have policed the biases and will continue to do so.
It does not mean people do not have them...of course they do. We are asking people to be mature about them and not come here to express, push, or lift up such biases over other people." - bd_popeye, 2014
Why can't we abide by the rules as they are written out that so many seem keen to flout without recourse?
I get that moderating doesn't pay, but some moderator choices are fairly questionable! Should they not act more widely as paragons for forum behaviour?
Plenty examples I've personally seen make a mockery of the system in place.
Can we not try get this place back to where it was? So many easy(ish) changes..
I know they're busy and not paid to police things here but where are the mods!
P.S. containment never works
