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Of course Moderation superuser authorities here, known and cloaked, cannot see themselves as wrongful SPE “wardens” abusing “prisoners”. If they could, it would not be SPE.

Joe and I set up the Old Forum, and it ran for over a decade, with never any heavy-handed moderation (except when Rod briefly acted as a self-righteous super-exasperated Moderator). Truly we did our part to welcome and promote open AWE far more patiently and productively, in almost 30k of pioneering posts, full of key domain art.

Thankfully there was never an issue with Topics in the wrong Category, hidden topics, deletions, and all similar distractions, not just because such features did not exist, but because our mission was RAD (Rapid AWE Development). Balky Netiquette policing never trumped technical maximization.

Moderation here has proven it would rather see sound content like Cosine Functions and kite-related Analytic Philosophy go away, rather than generously tolerate such posting in the author’s intended Category. Crucial AWE Categories do not even exist, while junk categories are frozen in and given priority.

Moderators here simply lack the lifetime experience and wisdom JoeF has showed in editing kite tech since the '60s, and archiving all AWE knowledge faithfully beyond anyone else. JoeF is still editing and hosting AWE content online, which Moderators here seem unaware of, in calling for yet another Forum, rather than moderating helpfully like JoeF.

I stayed away from here for a couple of months, to see what would happen with less frission, and posting statistics dwindled to days at a time with no posts, with more moderators than non-moderators posting. That’s what censorship does compared to free expression.

The myth of a popular AWE Forum by too many moderators with too many tools is busted. The highest function of an AWE Forum remains technical, given the historic urgency to create AWE.

An AWE forum can also be useful by providing analysis showing that AWES are not efficient in regard to electricity production at utility-scale. If The no market Hypothesis is confirmed, the AWE forum will have helped to save funds that would be useful for other energy sectors.

AWE is at best a “newborn baby” that has not yet saved the world, if ever; but some of us are trying to make it happen with great passion.

A vast and complex global energy market surely does exist for AWE to succeed or fail in.

Even beyond market-materialism, there is a dream of AWE as a superior way to live, in the very sky itself, where energy flows so gloriously.

Let AWE pessimists live with less hope.

You can always continue that work. Joe has made an archive. He has made his own platform. One can mail him articles for publication. You might as well use this. You may also set up your own discourse server (I’ll even help you, if I can) or use reddit or whatnot.

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Yeah, you can imagine, the response to that one brief moment where I moderated on the yahoo forum… was to remove me as moderator

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Yes, the Old Forum moderated imModeration, not contributors. Try that here.

I still contribute to content to JoeF, not just here. Yes, we know unrestricted hosting exists beyond this dystopian hunger-game. Heck, we were online in the FidoNet era, and raised better as well, to stand fast against authoritarianism-gone-wild, never just cut-and-run :clown_face:

Tell Windy Skies to go moderate Law 25 anonymously on Reddit.

Luke has moved this message from its comic context, where Tallak had thought Luke had posted “spam”. I replied:

“No. “Spam” is mention of the “Old Forum”.”

For those who cannot see Hidden Content on this Forum, Moderators have decided that mere mention of the Old AWES Forum is “spam”, never mind free-speech or context.

@kitefreak do you allude to the following message?

Not just that message, but also several hidden Moderation messages. There seems to be no allowed exceptions to mentioning the Old Forum being defined as spam. These messages themselves could be deleted as such.

Its funny that Tallak thought Luke was spamming. The only serious spam in AWE are the failing commercial claims of a few highly capitalized ventures. Millions see those promotions. Investors have lost millions.

That is a misrepresentation. You can read about this in this comment and my follow-up comment:

So what are the exceptions, in clear logical form?

Is it allowed to write, “early AWE R&D has a rich written and graphic history, as documented on the old AWES Forum, in almost 30k messages, by many of the original pioneers”?

How many mentions of the “old forum” are allowed? Is the “new forum” similarly under numeric quota?

This was just censored by Windy Skies, along with the cool video link-

The dramatic success of kite sports continues to build, far overshadowing the tiny angst-world of specific AWE R&D. This video politely shows the engineering culture gap. Even the cinematography and music is better, and the star power kite is dynamite.

Follow-up engineering analysis was going to explore how power-kite design has converged so closely to optimal form, while those who try to reinvent the kite from first principles are hurting.

This forum is now wasting hours of time every day for individuals who would otherwise progress AWES.
A solution to this frustration exists.