IMO, there's extensive moderation on a.org, perhaps more serious than
on any other Amiga-related site. Flames and trolls are removed more
rigourously than on other sites, at least that's my impression.
Now, some people clearly don't understand when they are being
offensive, and so they don't understand why their posts are being
deleted. Well - their problem. IMO if you find your posts being
deleted, you should keep a copy and take a good look at anything that
was deleted.
I will not deny that there are a couple of individuals who are trying
to "support" the Pegasos/MorphOS in a very offensive way, insulting
people and trolling. However, I think there is a cathegory of people
which is really overrepresented among OS4/AInc supporters, and that's
those who are not really trolling, but who are simply unable to apply
any critical thought whatsoever as regards AInc announcements,
statements and products.
Just as an example: This latest thing with the Agreement/No agreement
exchange between bbrv and McEwen. I can't help but noticing that when
AInc made their statements, there were quite a lot of people instantly
taking this as some kind of "proof" that bbrv were lying. On the
contrary, when bbrv makes statements, the vast majority of
Pegasos/MorphOS supporters try to make the two statements fit together
somehow rather than automatically believing bbrv's words as the only
valid point of view and McEwen to be full of lies.
Sure, I admit I put more trust into bbrv's words, but I would still
expect the truth to be somewhere "in between". And even though I
consider the possibility that McEwen may simply be lying, I'd
certainly never claim this to be proven or obvious simply because bbrv
make a conflicting statement.
