I am officially hijacking this thread. It is now about posting the absolute dumbest A-10-related shit you can find. We'll start off with this classic:
Huh, it looks like they've basically whitewashed everything an F-15C can do, and they've basically restated "CAS/Strike" a bunch of different ways for the A-10. That sounds like fun, I want to try!
Hello everyone! I'm completely new to forums and i honestly don't know how to work these things, but i'm trying my best.
A information about myself is that i don't know as near as much on AFV's and whatnot as you guys do, I just have a general knowledge.
So uhh yeah, I guess post what your favorite vehicles are or something because i don't what i'm doing...
I do hope y'all can help me expand my knowledge however. I'm excited to learn more on Military tech.
I went ahead and moved your thread to Open. Feel free to post in Mechanized, but intros should normally be in Open with the other miscellaneous topics. I'll refer you to the Beginner's Guide and the Forum Structure threads for info on how to start posting:
As the title suggests, please read this post before you yourself posts.
First, it's appropriate for me to introduce this forum to the new posters that may be reading this. Sturgeon's House is a forum for those concerned with technical topics. Those of us that make up the core of the website are those who value good information over bad, who value the best sources and documents over those poorly executed. We thrive on sharing primary sources with each other and discussing them. As I once said on another forum, it doesn't matter if the airplane looks good, it matters how well it flies. That's how we feel about sources and documents here on SH. It has to make sense, and it has to fit within the ever-refining context in which it exists. In short, SH is a document-based forum, in the same way that 4chan is an image-based forum.
Before you post, I think it's fair that you know that in this forum I intend to hold everyone to a - relatively speaking - higher standard of posting. It's my goal to make this forum a place with not only a high signal to noise ratio, but also a place with a high level of cultivated humor and levity. So at once, I expect posters to take posting seriously, but also to not take posting seriously. It's easier than it sounds, I think. Perhaps, instead, I should say: "The quality of posts should be high, but the subject need not be serious."
If you're new to the forum, the safest course of action to being accepted here is to try to post sources without commenting on them, and to pay attention to the forum Nobility (they are tagged as such). If you find something interesting, post it without making any comment of your own. For instance, perhaps post a documentary and ask "what does the forum think of this?". Be sure to pay attention to the responses you get, especially those of the Nobility. They should tell you a lot about how we do things at SH, and what a good or bad document looks like.
If I were a new poster here, I'd tackle technical subjects first (by posting sources without commentary), then once you've gotten a few likes from the Nobility, maybe try your hand at humor or the more recreational areas. I would not try to post anything about politics or religion until you are very well established on the forum.
I do not enforce any moral codes here on SH, only anti-obnoxiousness and anti-spam rules. Your language will not be censored, but your content may well be, especially if it contributes nothing to the discussion or is otherwise a deliberate attempt to reduce the value of content on this website. The lack of censorship here at SH is not an excuse to be a cad.
There are three basic guidelines to posting at SH that were for a long time unspoken but understood by everyone here. However, since we have grown in membership, it is worthwhile to state them openly:
1. This forum was created to be a place where technical discussions can take place without drama. That is a burden every single poster needs to bear, and it comes before anyone's honor, reputation, etc.
2. No one on this forum is an "untouchable"; not even I am, though as a general rule it's stupid to piss off an admin.
3. Any shitstorms that occur are to be worked through, and must not be allowed to wreak permanent havoc on the forum's membership. This is the Internet, and no grudges or bad blood are really very real. If you have a problem, you can work it out like adults. There is no "or else", just work it out.
4. Keeping the post quality high here is a group effort. Think of it like a group hike - you don't have to like everyone you're marching with, but if someone stumbles or trips up you pick them up and help them, you don't break your own leg in escalation. Posting here is like that - if someone else, regardless of what you think of them - falters in posting well, do what you can to keep the conversation on track and the posting quality high.
Lastly, I recommend you read over BabyOlifant's posting rules, which, while they don't always fit exactly right on this forum, are a good starting point to posting well:
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Since this forum is primarily intended as a place to collate and discuss research, I have decided to integrate relevant blogs as subforums within each forum category. Not only does this organize the blogs according to their usual subject matter, it also allows posters to reach the blogs easily, without having to use the blogs tab. Further, it also allows me to integrate other relevant websites that may not be blogs into the site where they belong (e.g., Logical Increments).
Currently, blogs and sites listed as subforums come from my blogroll and bookmarks, but if I've missed any or if there are good blogs that belong here that I do not read, please PM me with the link(s).
The integrated external links are being updated all the time to keep the forum relevant, so be sure to look for new sites every time you log on!
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Finally, be courteous to other members, try to keep your posts relevant and informative (you have many resources at your fingertips built right into the forum itself if you don't have anything off the top of your head), and you should get along fine. People here value quality posting over all, so start making as many substantial contributions as possible until you find your feet. We like member who post docs, pictures, good blog posts, etc.!
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