Well that is too bad, hope he reconsiders.
I won't argue that Scud, but that doesn't mean that it can't be drug into the muck. I personally would rather see your site stand on its own as opposed to being dependent on Avcanada for material. I'm sure you'd agree that it wouldn't be much if all this was was threads that started with links to the other place. My opinion, take it for what you paid for it.
I would argue that this site does stand on its own merit, it is because many of you have contributed great posts and expressed your opinions free of censorship. Please go check out the stats at the bottom of the home page for how many views this site gets, its not just Chuck and Colonel clicking and reading.
We have many regular readers who don't post which is totally fine, I lurk on a few other sites myself.
When it comes to posting links to other sites there will be a lot of duplication between aviation forums and I encourage you all to post links on here to them. I want you to feel free to post and talk about whatever you like, if you don't like the topic don't post and you certainly don't need to read it. I just think its funny that this site causes so much controversy, go ahead try and post a link to a topic from here to other sites and watch how fast it gets pulled.
And to that point this is the precise reason why this monkey with a keyboard decided to create this site in the first place. I would post something and because some mod didn't think it was to their liking they would pull it or worse yet they would edit my post to something completely different.
Which brings me to my second chuckle point, Mods don't get paid sqwat for their efforts. Avcanada and PPRUNE are printing cash on their backs. (I suppose you could say typical pilots working for substandard wages read zero.)
Don't believe me? go and google "adsense", you know those ads posted on this sites and others and learn about the revenue it can generate to a website then take a look at how many viewers those sites get and get your e6b out and do some math. Then look for direct ads on those sites, companies purchase to a targeted audience and do some more reading on what business will pay for that many eyeballs on there ads.
Intrigued ? want me to go on?
Internet Brands owns PPRUNE.org which was acquired for $640 Million by these guys
http://hf.com/ a private equity firm worth $36 Billion
Do you think Internet Brands and Hellman and Friedmen give a shit about Scudrunners posts on PPRUNE? No, but their volunteer mod sure does!
The current asking price for Avcanada is $1.5 million, yup I asked.
Airliners.net owned by Demand Media DMD on the NYSE valued at $89 Million
Scudrunners , not for sale and no openings for mods thanks for asking.
This site has generated enough to cover hosting, domain and some logo and templates/mods which were $140, $20, $25 and $10 respectively. So we essentially broke even! which was my goal, yaaa goals!
So if every once in a while posts get derailed or dragged through the muck its the price we pay to have an open discussion.
I just like having this as a meeting point of folks who like to talk airplanes, will it grow into a multi million dollar site?
Of course it will and it will be a fun time.