billyh42

Hi all Greetings from Scotland, where as part of the UK, it's far too expensive to do any real flying! Nice diverse forum here! Quite different from the usual UK aviation forums. I specialise in 360 Degree Spherical Panoramic photography so I hope to contribute a few bits and pieces to the photography section of the forums that I think the board users will find interesting. billyh42

This is certainly true for the PPRuNe forums. Amusingly I was banned just last week for updating a link in a post and asking a question! I specialise in 360 degree panoramic photography and had a few shots of an Avro Lancaster on the forum. These shots were there for a couple of months. I however changed my web server and the links (which had received over 1200 hits) became invalid. I edited the post to update the links but then I received a few PM's telling me that the links were missing. I checked the post and sure enough, no links. I assumed that there had been a problem after I had edited and put the links back in. Next thing, an email from a "Moderator" telling me that I was on my "final" warning for posting commercial advertising. It turns out that they were complaining about a small Amazon link that is on the bottom of the page that hosts the panorama movie. I pointed out that almost every image on PPRuNe was hosted on a commercial site such as PhotoBucket with advertising on every page. That was it - banned! No discussion, no reasoning! My ball, my game! Pathetic! billyh42