Bomber wrote:bugman showed up with his cross posting from another forum..... which I believe is against forum rules.
It's called substantiating claims - it isn't "out of context" if it backs up a statement that is made, which is why it is so easy for people to follow bugman's line of reasoning: he tends to go the extra mile and puts all sorts of links into his postings that allow people to easily verify who said something, why it was said, in response to whom, and under what circumstances - from where I am standing, that's what makes all the difference: I don't need to believe what bugman is saying, I can simply follow the pointers/quotes he posts and then make up my own mind independently - aka, the power of quoting
We may not always appreciate being quoted, and we may consider certain quotes to be "out of context", but that's better left as an exercise to the reader, aka this community.
(in case you missed it, some would claim that I am a little familiar with quoting and with quoting in the FlightGear ecosystem in particular)
Anyway, in all seriousness, by inflating such incidents this much, you are empowering the very people you are disagreeing with - and I am saying that as someone who's own behavior is also considered highly controversial by some, some of whom even ended up deciding not to participate in the forum/wiki anymore in response to my involvement apparently.
Realistically, this is the worst thing that people can do to deal with others who they disagree with - if, let's say, Thorsten doesn't get along with me, and disagrees with my way of posting here, and contributing to the wiki, he'd be well-advised to stay around and keep an eye on me, than just hand over this place to someone who he strongly disagrees with, so that it goes even more haywire.
Equally, whenever you are inflating minor misconceptions like this, you are empowering people like bugman even more - because there really is no way that you can win this debate as long as you're using these tactics (and language), and as long as people like bugman are so eloquent when it comes to dealing with these accusations.
It's as simple as that ...