Posts by Bryan Harris10

frozendrifter7 said:Feel free to quote the specific post that led to my ban.

Look, frozendrifter7—my issue here is the blatant double standard regarding discipline and sanctions.

I realize it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly who started the fire, but is it really acceptable that someone using the handle C. Đ goes unchecked? In a thread discussing aircraft selection for the US Air Force, this individual labeled anyone with a slightly different perspective as Nazis, fascists, nationalists—you name it.

My response was simply stating that I haven't lived under any of those regimes—having only known communism—and that I have zero interest in eating people or killing them.

Forgive any typos; I'm typing this on the fly because I need to be at the airport by morning.

I indirectly call him a "black devil" and get slapped with a 60-day ban, while he gets nothing—even though we’ve gone 100 pages deep on that topic without a single red card being issued to his side.

That’s the point: the cause is pardoned, while the consequence is punished.

I was hanging around another aviation forum recently, and this exact inconsistency really rubbed me the wrong way.

And yet, you have a decent group of people here: pp5d6, 9aplus, Hawk75, an encyclopedia of MiG-21 knowledge from Migac, Mikoyan, pilot Sova77, and military pilots like Gerald Reyes3 and Castela72 who rarely post elsewhere.

It seems like a shame that the regular contributors—the ones keeping the discussion alive like Sova77, Gerald Reyes3, and Castela72, who even provide a learning opportunity for the younger crowd—are the ones getting penalized because of a few outliers.

It bothers me that I’ll post some information and go through the effort of attaching a photo

only to be practically spat upon by a guy who hasn't even touched this thread in three or four months, only to jump in out of nowhere with a punch to the gut:

If I had pulled that stunt with him—or anyone else—on a politics thread, I would have been hit with two red cards for trolling and a 7-day ban immediately.

I joined this forum about two and a half years ago. Since then, I’ve put up 960 posts in the Military history and technology moderation section—roughly 85% of which focus on the US Air Force.

I’ve been banned three times and handed red cards four or five times, all following the exact same pattern.

(The moderators, with the exception of Hawka75—who actually stays consistent and understands what an aviation discussion entails, refusing to let PARACHUTISTS derail a thread with a single post and then flee while the rest of us get banned).

Last night, a US Air Force pilot was banned, while another colleague was essentially baited into a confrontation.

Look, I’m not a pilot, but I work in aviation and have been around it for years. I realize this forum is meant for the general public, but in the Military history and technology moderation section, the logic is unfortunately quite skewed:

They ignore the cause (letting him go free to continue his provocations) and immediately BAN the consequence. Sadly, that has become the standard rule for this subforum.