This morning I posted a reaponse to a thread on what age we all started flying. Seems the threat starter was having trouble convincing his wife that flying was a good activity to take up. I used to get a lot of flack from my wife about flying - too expensive, takes up too much time, etc. Now, she is in favor of us getting another plane. I pointed out, perhaps not politically correctly, that this is in large part because neither of us are willing to be brutalized and groped by the TSA for the privlige of getting on a commercial plane anymore. I then suggested that even if the thread starter and his wife don't feel strongly about that, he could find some positive aspect of flying your own plane and emphasize that as a way to convince his reluctant wife.

This afternoon, my post is gone. Are we starting to enforce standards of political correctness here????

No posts have been deleted. More likely is the fact that you:

1. Hit "Preview" instead of "Submit". That does not permanently save it to the database.

2. Hit "Save" instead of "Submit." If this is the case, go to the User Control Panel, and select "Manage Drafts" for the left column. If you hit Save earlier instead of "Submit" you likely have your post waiting as a draft in this list. This is a neat feature, because you can start a post and save it, come back later and finish it, then Submit it.

3. There was a system error and your post was not actually saved to the database.

1SeventyZ wrote:No posts have been deleted. More likely is the fact that you:

1. Hit "Preview" instead of "Submit". That does not permanently save it to the database.

2. Hit "Save" instead of "Submit." If this is the case, go to the User Control Panel, and select "Manage Drafts" for the left column. If you hit Save earlier instead of "Submit" you likely have your post waiting as a draft in this list. This is a neat feature, because you can start a post and save it, come back later and finish it, then Submit it.

3. There was a system error and your post was not actually saved to the database.

Thanks for the response - probably not a system error - I'm a terrible typist.

OscarDeuce wrote:

1SeventyZ wrote:No posts have been deleted. More likely is the fact that you:

1. Hit "Preview" instead of "Submit". That does not permanently save it to the database.

2. Hit "Save" instead of "Submit." If this is the case, go to the User Control Panel, and select "Manage Drafts" for the left column. If you hit Save earlier instead of "Submit" you likely have your post waiting as a draft in this list. This is a neat feature, because you can start a post and save it, come back later and finish it, then Submit it.

3. There was a system error and your post was not actually saved to the database.

Thanks for the response - probably not a system error - I'm a terrible typist.

OscarDeuce, you will have to do better than that to get into the Hot Air club. I could give you examples, but Zane lives close to me and I'm afraid he might beat me with a rubber hose.

Rob

Ouch! A rubber hose! Rob you deserve at least a 2x4 or chunk of nylon tow rope.

Regardless of what you may have read, I am very respectful of others' posts and do not edit or delete them, other than in cases of double posts or broken BBcode tags, or if I determine that the poster is an ill-willed alias or spammer.

Issues regarding the TSA or other government entities that can restrict our flying are very relevant, so that stuff usually does not qualify for Hot Air unless it gets really nasty. Automatic Hot Air threads are usually not flying related and clearly political in nature. Even then, I would not delete your post. The Hot Air forum though does automatically prune itself of threads that have been inactive for 45 days.

This is a great forum! I have read some replies that probably would have been deleted on other forums but here they stay. I belonged to a motorcycle forum a few years ago and the Moderator would delete posts all the time if he didn't like what people said. It wasn't that the post were vulgar, offensive or anything, it was if the Moderator didn't agree with that point of view he would pull it. People would rag at him all the time but he continued to pull whatever he didn't like. The last straw on that site was when he took one of my posts and changed the text and left my name on it! Last post I did there was something about Lousy SOB, Fourms in Comunist Countries and censorship. I'm sure that post was gone imediately. Any way, This a great forum and it is really nice to be here. Thanks to you that make it possible.

Jerry Earl