http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=877
Discuss Tad here
Bob Kuczewski - 2022/04/06 05:14:42 UTC
It appears that Tad continues his rewriting of history on
kitestrings.org:
Tad Eareckson wrote:As I reported in my previous post... Been working fixing problems and making improvements to our collections of posts from Day 1 to present since about mid February. Started with "instructors and other qualified pilot fiends" with its 1865 top level of posts and have been working down the decreasing levels of prolificacy. Have completed the aforementioned, "Weak links", "landing", "The Bob Show", "You are NEVER hooked in." and am at present a bit over halfway through "Releases" - 7718 / 63 percent of the palindrome. One could spend a freakin' lifetime...
Tad doesn't document what he meant by "fixing problems and making improvements to our collections of posts", but given his previous actions, I would not trust his site to properly reflect what people had originally posted. The same is true for ozreport.com and hanggliding.org. All three of these sites are operated by people who have rewritten the history of other people's posts on their web sites.
If you care about the legacy of your posts on the internet, be sure you pick a web site with a track record of honoring what you write. Otherwise, you will find yourself under the control of the person with the ability to alter or obliterate your own history of posts. Ask any long time poster on those other sites about how that feels.
It appears...
It "APPEARS"? So you have no actual evidence of anything supporting what you're saying. You're just saying that the referenced post gives that APPEARANCE.
...that Tad continues his rewriting of history...
- That Tad CONTINUES his rewriting of history? Sorry, I missed where I'd been rewriting history before. I'd be eternally grateful if you could provide an example or two.
- History is ALWAYS getting rewritten - often for the better as new information, documentation, physical evidence comes to light and different perspectives are considered. That's a good thing. When I was starting out I had high regards for folk like Dennis Pagen, Donnell Hewett, Mike Robertson 'cause I thought they'd gotten their heads wrapped around this stuff far better than I could ever hope to. Even praised Davis for establishing his Oz Report as a valuable resource for the sport. Not so much anymore...
- Rewriting history to alter, obscure, erase undesirable elements of the record... Need I say more.
Tad doesn't document what he meant by "fixing problems and making improvements to our collections of posts"...
Tad doesn't really have to. Legitimate Kite Strings members and readers know exactly what he meant and aren't the least bit worried about me doing anything destructive or nefarious.
...but given his previous actions...
His unspecified previous actions. Maybe you could specify one or two.
...I would not trust his site to properly reflect what people had originally posted.
- It's not my site. It's Zack C's.
- Like I give a flying fuck what or who you'd trust. (Been following the 2021/01/06 Insurrection hearings? I notice your "President Trump" topic has been dead since 2022/01/29 21:39:43 UTC (five months ago today).)
- What people had originally posted? With this one Kite Strings will have 12227 and I'll personally have 9142 posts - a wee bit shy of three quarters of them. And we don't even wanna start talking about word count.
- Kite Strings has eighteen Members with Moderator or better level access. Virtually everybody who's ever posted anything over here is a Moderator. Also two who haven't. How many Bob Show Members has Emperor Bob trusted with a key? (Closing now on a dozen years of its history.)
- So surely you should be able to find ONE example of ONE post of ANYONE's (including one of my own) to cite as an example of malicious and/or destructive intent. Really? Why not?
The same is true for ozreport.com and hanggliding.org. All three of these sites are operated by people who have rewritten the history of other people's posts on their web sites.
- You mean the Jack with which you happily jumped in bed to found an alternative national hang gliding association even worse than u$hPa?
- Go fuck yourself. Kite Strings is what preserves records of what Davis and Jack don't want anybody to be able to see.
http://www.kitestrings.org/viewtopic.php?p=9418#p9418
- Cite ONE example of the historical record of ANYTHING being altered by ANYONE on Kite Strings. The best you're gonna be able to do is Allen Sparks having deleted several of his own posts. And I'm not happy about those but I'd be even less happy about eliminating the option for a Member to edit his own posts as he sees fit.
If you care about the legacy of your posts on the internet, be sure you pick a web site with a track record of honoring what you write.
Hard to beat The Bob Show - where Emperor Bob will only:
- Pull all of your posts out of one of his pigfuckers' chapter divisions and dump them in his Basement upon the request of the relevant pigfucker chapter's Mini Emperor For Life
- Lock you down in his Basement:
-- to run a short (read permanent) scientific experiment to determine whether or not doing so will boost overall participation
-- for whatever reason he feels like pulling outta his ass for justification for crippling the access of a Member he wants silenced
I'd advise one to analyze the prospective website for the material which is and participants who are conspicuously absent.
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/viewforum.php?f=76&start=75
Paragliding Forum - View Forum - Towing
- Weak links in towing paragliders with pay out winch
- Weak links why do we use them. in paragliding.
Forum Moderators - 2010/02/24 22:02:46 UTC
Tad Eareckson
We, the Moderators, feel that weak links are an important topic. In our view Tad Eareckson's posts have discouraged others from taking part in this discussion, so, after several warnings, he has been banned. His most recent post, after this topic was locked, is here:
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=30195
moderation
We are happy to lift the ban if we come to the view that Tad has further positive contributions to make - please contact us by PM or by email if you feel that this is the case.
That was over a dozen years ago. Somebody show me all the posts about bagger weak links that emerged after Tad Eareckson's posts stopped discouraging others from taking part in this discussion.
That was the discussion - by the way - which caught the attention of John Moody who got me to participate on the Houston wire which got me meshed with Zack C who founded Kite Strings after an illegal vote to silence me which I lost (I consider it a win actually) by a narrow margin.
Otherwise, you will find yourself under the control of the person with the ability to alter or obliterate your own history of posts.
Like any other hang gliding forum on the planet. And Kite Strings preserves a tremendous volume of the critical historic record of the sport that:
- the Industry doesn't want anybody to be able to see
- has just vanished because local organizations have collapsed
Ask any long time poster on those other sites about how that feels.
Let's ask here at Kite Strings...
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Not hearing anything. Not even banned Former Member Emperor Bob can cite a single one of his punctuation marks being deleted or altered.
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I'm going through the forum and:
- dealing with issues caused by phpBB version upgrades
- standardizing formats
- illustrating issues with photos and videos
- fixing:
-- typos and spelling and grammatical errors
-- broken links
- analyzing enemy posts for vulnerabilities we may have missed on the first thirty passes
- checking my own posts for accuracy and consistency
- getting ideas for newer and better takes on some of hang gliding's record
But I wouldn't get too attached to any of these forums. None of us are immortal and I lose a lot of sleep considering that some day down the road all this work and historical record will totally evaporate and be lost to this planet forever.