I may be the only one, but I find it annoying that a number of people have felt the need to jump into certain threads in order to scold the efforts of a few for trying to conduct their own analysis of various photos, videos etc. ...
I have changed the topic and the location of the thread for several reasons:
- This kind of meta-conversation about etiquette is not directly about TIGHAR's research on the Niku hypothesis. It is therefore off-topic in the Amelia Earhart Search Forum. (http://tighar.org/smf/index.php?action=collapse;c=2;sa=collapse;e57dd528e0c3=aab4208953b4e4b34049769e2ef7dc59#c2)
- We have several moderators whose job it is to moderate the Forum. It is contrary to the Forum guidelines (http://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,377.0.html) for posters to lash out at each other in a misguided effort to bring other posters into compliance with unofficial guidelines. That's how flamewars get started.
- An excellent remedy to deal with people whose posts annoy you is to place them on your "ignore" list (http://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,398.0.html). Please do so quietly. Those who loudly announce that they are plonking another poster have missed the whole point; such posts will be removed immediately.
- At the bottom of every post in the Forum, including this one, is a link that will let you report the individual post to the moderators. This is an easy way of expression your frustrations in a constructive fashion.
(http://tighar.org/aw/mediawiki/images/e/e9/Report-to-moderator.png)