http://www.hanggliding.org/rules/
Rules - Hang Gliding Org
HangGliding.Org's Mission Statement
* To actively promote the sport of HANG GLIDING
* To actively market and position the sport of HG in the recreational/sporting market place
* To provide a friendly and positive, approachable community for people interested in the sport of HG.
* To provide a friendly community for Hang Glider pilots to hang out and discuss hang gliding
* To provide online resources to potential pilots and hang glider pilots
So how's all that stuff been working out for you?
What kind of shape is hang gliding in now compared to what it was when you started up in 2006?
How successful have you been in enforcing friendliness standards in a sport that's been a major dickhead magnet since the beginning of time?
If somebody wants to find out what he should be using for an aerotow weak link - the focal point his safe towing system - and what it's supposed to be doing for him where does he go for answers and what will the answers be? Failing that, whose opinions should he be giving the most attention?
2019 HangGliding.Org Simplified Rules and Policies
Sure is a good thing these are the SIMPLIFIED Rules and Policies. I'd probably go blind before getting to the halfway point in the unabridged ones.
* This website is a small private business just like your local coffee shop.
- How the fuck do you know what my local coffee shop is like?
- I just scrutinized the Starbucks website looking for THEIR Russian novel's worth of rules and policies for customer conduct and I couldn't find shit. Seems like they're perfectly OK with most of the stuff allowed by the US Constitution and regular accepted local laws and ordinances. Nothing about the manager snooping around eavesdropping on everybody's conversations, turning over tables, throwing patrons out on the street when they say stuff he doesn't agree with. And they're doing a helluva lot better than you are.
- My own local coffee shop that only provides tables and uses the conversations of the people who sit at them as its product.
- Oh. It's a SMALL (as in the worlds largest hang gliding community) PRIVATE
BUSINESS. Thank you for clarifying that you're making money off of content that other people are providing. And here I was thinking that it was a COMMUNITY of individuals from around the world united by a love of the hang glider flavor of aviation. I've always thought the place smelled pretty funny.
No different than any other business you visit on a daily basis, big or small.
Right. All businesses all around the planet are all just alike and are all just like The Jack Show. Hard to imagine any of them ever came into existence without The Jack Show available to provide the model.
Anyone showing a pattern of abuse or harassment that would cause them to be thrown out of their local coffee shop can expect the same treatment here, including personally attacking or harassing the customers, or the business owner.
Also anyone saying anything Jack doesn't want them to. Like....
Donnell Hewett - 1980/12
Now I've heard the argument that "Weak links always break at the worst possible time, when the glider is climbing hard in a near stall situation"...
...the argument that "Weak links always break at the worst possible time, when the glider is climbing hard in a near stall situation."
* KEEP IT CIVIL. Customers who show a pattern of attacking, badgering or harassing other customers, will be removed.
- What customers?
- 'Cept of course the coffee shop owner. He gets to piss all over, attack, badger harass, remove any "customers" he feels like 'cause the owner of he worlds largest coffee shop is accountable to NO ONE.
* Dont spam the forum. No advertising on this site. Ask SG for permission first.
- And remember never to use proper punctuation for anything. See below about the seven-year-old level content guidelines.
- The forum IS spam. Any thread that has any elements of substance and legitimacy gets locked down before the posts count gets up into double digits.
* No classifieds in the forums - they go on the classifieds section. This helps pay for the very high end hosting I use to run such a large website.
- Yeah? What else helps pay for it? The astronomical goodness of your heart?
- How much?
* When posting, think about non-HG pilots who come to visit the site every day.
Yeah, untold thousands of English speaking potential hang glider pilots lurking around The Jack Show to make sure that this crowd is well up to their civility and friendliness standards. Those are the people we really wanna draw into the sport to help dilute all the assholes who participate in it now. And if anybody were actually doing that the easy way would be to just scan for locked threads. Right now there's one apiece an the most recent two pages - four percent. And then he'd read the content. Thanks for making it easy for them.
Please put your best foot forward and showcase the fun adventurous atmosphere we experience every day in the landing zone after a great flight.
- Put your best foot forward way up his ass.
- In the landing zone the fun's usually over 'cept for the assholes entertaining themselves by watching imperfectly timed landing flares.
- Really great flights tend not to end up in the landing zone.
- I wonder how these landing zones are able to maintain such fun adventurous atmospheres without you (pa)trolling them all and deciding what people will and won't be allowed to discuss.
- I was around landing zones between 1980 and 2008. Good freakin' luck finding one occupied by more than five glider people without two or more of them hating each other's guts.
The majority of website traffic is NEW traffic, and very likely non-pilots. This website has very broad world wide reach.
Should be seeing a huge resurgence of the sport any minute now.
Over 3 MILLION people have visited this website.
I so do hope all the national hang gliding associations have enough registration forms to keep up with the coming demand.
* One account per person. No fake email addresses. Accounts registered using well known spammy email companies will not be approved.
Likewise with any legitimate and principled hang glider pilots.
* No PORN or adult material.
Like you get buried with every time you open a page on the Davis/Gerry Show.
It is against my server companies policies and there are plenty of other websites for that stuff.
- Like the Davis/Gerry Show. (See above.)
- We don't have a rule like that over here. And yet I remain perpetually disappointed by the total dearth of such submissions.
If you couldn't show it on TV during a childrens program, don't post it here.
Ditto for the literacy level and aeronautical theory concepts and explanations. (Keep up the great work on the punctuation.)
Please use the REPORT feature in the forum to notify me.
- And make sure you do it that way anonymously. Jack so does enjoy reporting on the hordes of cowardly unidentified little snitches he has lining up to suck his dick.
- What? The daily contributions to this forum are too overwhelming for you to even monitor what's going on in your fake coffee shop - with its increasingly senile and dwindling membership and ever diminishing level of activity?
