I believe they are removing the “Member Since” tag on everyones name stating the year you joined. Not sure why they are doing that but its what i understand is happening.
“Member since…” isn’t always a good way to determine experience level. The person could be a member for months or years before making his first posting. A member could make a posting as soon as he signed up and not make another posting for months or years.
In either case, the member could be very experienced using the forum and FlightAware.
And don’t get me started on what I always feel are “feely-goody” statements like “welcome aboard” statements! I personally don’t really care for them. Same thing for postings that wish people a Merry Christmas or a Happy New Year or other holiday.
Which reminds me,
I’m looking for an FA examiner, I’m due for a biannual post review…I probably oughta make a few smart A comments and emergency sorry posts with a message board instructor since I haven’t posted in a while, gotta keep the rust off. The bottom line is, to keep posting safely, you’ve gotta keep your experience level up. This is life and death!
While I won’t go as far as Dami on the Happy New Year (I page through 'em fairly fast), I do agree on some just-want-to-post things: “Thank you for your post”. Pops up as a new comment, only to find somebody said “saw that, too” with no info. However, in the spirit of the new year, I will bite my already scarred tongue and let them post as a way of communicating…
You mean like the second posting in the Bill Lear Jr. dead at 81 thread. I found the poster’s posting to extremely usefu, highly informative, and well thought out. I found it so great I’ll reproduce it below in it’s entirety: