Not sure why everyone is congratulating me... It is just a job, and being that I am here alot ( too much really....) , only makes sence that I offer to help out.
Jake, are you okay?
LuftCarl, I suggest one of you guys who seem to have more to say in the " political " threads, than most other areas of the forum, to open a new forum just for discussion of politics. We can post a link here on this forum and make it a sticky, and then you guys can tear each other apart... or keep on complaining about Obama and how the country sucks, they are going to take away our guns, etc... etc.... etc.... etc.... etc.......
Personally I am majorly against censorship, and have probably posted more questionable things here than anyone else. I was the one who got Todd to make a off topic section to begin with, so we could truely go off topic and discuss anything.
The problem is, that back then when the off topic area was started, there was far more activity in the rest of the areas of the forum. Important discussions on stability.... Important discussions on new designs of gyros, helicopters, and sub systems on our machines..... There was Lot's of build threads and modification threads....
The focus of the forum was on flying and building, not 10 page threads about gun control, or which party would do a better job in congress, etc...
And that is where a large part of the forum activity seems to be now. Not only that, but just like discussing religions, there is rarely a time where everyone can discuss something without hurting someone elses feelings or making them mad.
Things were out of control by the time we had our election, and it has slowed down somewhat, but rules are rules and Todds rule sticks.
There are a slew of political related threads open right now, and I am not going on a moderator thread closing spree. But if I recieve private complaints ( as I did today about a thread about Obamas 1st 100 days ) I will likely close it down, till told otherwise by Todd or Mike.
Some of you guys should focus some of this energy on building a gyro instead of continuing on about how bad our country is. Imagine if just 10 percent of the people on this forum decided instead of spending so much time on the off topic area of this forum, and instead went out to the garage to drill some holes and cut some aluminum to put together a gyrobee or some other affordable gyroplane.... We would stimulate OUR economy. Over 200 rotorheads would need to be produced, Ernie would have to hire more help to cover the 200 sets of Dragon wings that would be ordered, Warp drive.... Aircraft spruce.... Azusa.... StarBee Gyros.... the list would go on and on. Then there would be 200 more modern safe gyros out there, tons more to show up at the fly-ins, to be shown locally to give more exposure to our sport, PRA chapters would be active again, PRA membership would rise, The forum would be more addicting than crack with all the build threads, etc.... etc.... etc.......
So again, no big deal, just wanted to start a thread letting you guys know what I am up to, and if you have any problems or complaints, I will do my best to help you out, and keep everyone happy.