I want to first say that this post is NOT a personal attack. I am seeing a few things here with Butch that I have seen on another board. I would as that moderators/admins to pay attention.
If you look at his signature he has a link about his thoughts on the airlines. It ultimatly is part of this Google group;
https://server2.kproxy.com/servlet/r...ndedpassengers
It's a message board about the flier's rights movment that you may have heard about. Kate Hani was the one leading the way with this. It seems the boards suddenly died off a couple months ago. However I guess the flier's bill of rights did as well. I'm not sure, because it's hard to find any new news on that suddenly, other than something about there being a cunch of guidlines passed. I've been reading that board, since he was so kind to invite us to see his thougths.
The problem over there, and it's starting to happen here, is he basically hijacked that board. In fact, he an another person on there kind of started tag teaming on one guy who is an airline employee, and it was pretty much the same thing there. Call the airline people scumbags or the like. Bring up arrests or calling the cops any chance he got. It seems that the later posts ate up the board with that sort of thing. There would be a few new complaints trickle in, but just like here, there were plenty that were nothing more than crap directed to another user.
These boards were meant as a way for people to voice complalints about the airlines, and for it to be discussed. Over there it was discussing flier's rights and the bill of rights. What that board turned into was a war zone.
I can see the same patterns starting to happen here. Look under the American Airlines section. He has a post called
Eagleguy: Typical employee of a US-based airline That whole post is nothing more than a bash fest on one member of these groups, and it has exploded to include more, myself included.
It was brought up in the suggestions area that when someone posts a complaint they need to include info about the complaint. For example, saying that a particular airline sucks really doesn't "tell the world" what went wrong. Many of his posts are qutie the same way. He constatntly birngs up arrests, but won't provide any actual details or examples. Something else that I see consistantly on those boards is that someone will press him to back up what he is saying, and all he does is to ignore that, and keep spewing the same things. Then he turns arround and accuses other people of the same.
The reason I bring all of this up is this board is meant for a constructive place for people to get it out about what happened. He is kind of turning into the undesirable neighbor that takes over the neighborhood. On the fliers rights boards it happened that way. He would posts some damn long posts, and 80% of it was nothing more than bashing someone, or saying things that were not true, or the like. In other words, lots of useless crap. I think he (and another one or two memebers) had the thought process that if they really bashed the guy hard enough, he would go away. It didn't seem to happen. In fact, he has still posted there, even when everyone else (minus a couple newbies) have disapeared. And it's going to be the same here. These whole boards are going to turn into nothing more than a back and forth
Lastly, I thought that there were a set of rules, as there are normally with any forum. However, as I have searched, I cannot find any. May I suggest to the moderators that there should be a set of rules.