The average from OP to first mudslinging, seems to be around 5 posts
Not a unique problem to AvCanada. I remember around
20 years ago, when the internet first started to get used,
before CERN came up with the URL stuff, horrible arguments
would arise on USENET, which was a distributed text-based
bulletin board. You could attach binaries (ah, uuencode) which
as far as I could tell, allowed pr0n images to drive the development
of higher-speed modems. But as usual, I digress.
The point is, 20 years ago on USENET, people started horrible
arguments that they would never do in person. I think it was
rec.skiing that spawned incredible lawsuits. Anything starting
with "alt" was the wild west.
Back to posting stuff. The problem is a lack of feedback. Posting
to the internet is "open loop". This results in immature people
saying things that they would never, ever say in person.
PS I apologize for my "control theory" template that I push
ahead of me, as I extrude reality through it, into what I expect.
A four-bars, for example, pushing his CRM template ahead of
him, would see this problem as a failure of CRM (as all problems
are), and he would opine that every person posting to the internet
needs another crewmember sitting next to him, to help him with
his posts to the internet.
You must admit that the CRM template is a much more amusing
one than my math, physics and control theory template, which is
pretty boring unless you're doing surface acro, in which case
that's what keeps you alive. Not CRM, which is why four-bars
compulsively trivialize stick and rudder airshow flying - that reality
isn't extruded through their CRM template, and is thus of no interest.
