Wednesday, May 2, 2007

IVAO PT Wars.

The IVAO Portuguese Division is again at war with VATSIM. Well, I don't know if I can say this way, or the other way :), but definately the temperamental thoughts are at the higher level that I ever saw since I go to the forum.

This time, the flame war started because a staff member quitted to share his server as the IVAN-PT server and IVAO-PT TS server. The problem is that he made this immediately (not even communicating it for a certain close date with the IVAO Staff).
Not a very respectfull move here, in my opinion, but this is not the worst problem now.
The worst problem is that the VATSIM members (well, from what I see there it's always the same guys, that after getting their IVAO forum usernames banned because of misconduct, they create a new account there with other name) got there like dogs and start, again, flamming the forum with things that don't even matter to IVAO or others.
And because the situation wasn't worse getting enough, some IVAO staff members started to put more strange topics there, like criticising a VA called RallyeAir... wow!

Well, on the last years, the IVAO staff really got a silent war with the VATSIM portuguese division ... but, is this all really necessary ? Aren't we were for fun ? For open discussions, and for virtual flight pleasure ?

I know that the situation is more complex than this. But because of that, I think this situation will not be solved by the fact of getting flame wars on public. Pilots don't like it, and they just move to other IVAO division, or to other network.
And that's something that the IVAO staff needs to think off...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for writing this.