Everybody, please research the matter properly before passing judgement.

Only one thread was deleted because it was a carbon copy of several other threads that had been spwaned for months and are indeed still available on the F16 forum. All others releated threads were locked. As such nothing is lost.

Actually it was Mary Wells herself who proposed to delete that thread and moderator Phill Brander complied.

No post about any breakage was ever deleted by a moderator. As a matter of fact, actually breakages instead of prophesized ones were not really part of these discussion. The post by PTP about his hull cracking (and being replaced by VMW under warranty) was altered by PTP himself (as is his right). Those posts and threads are still available on the F16 forum.

The fact of the matter is that a certain person was actively testing how far he could push it and he has finally reached the threshold after working it hard for months and despite tens of invitations and warnings to take the official routes or accept that his view is not shared by others despite repeated discussions. At this time the danger was that every single thread was hijacked into a one-man crusade to effect a rule change that was simply not supported by a majority of the F16 class members. Even I never got close to pushing it that far.

At a certain point in time the forum authority has got to make good on her policy or be defanged as a paper tiger, this was such a time.

You guys are now making things up about censoring that bare only scant resemblence to the situation at hand. We are in constant communication with the forum owners on how to handle the situation, even before this thing happened.

Wouter