I'm not objecting to the fact that not all opinions are equal, I'm just pointing out Blitzo's value judgement that Patchwork has been single-handedly one of the most high-yield content posting new members that this forum has seen in the last five years which clearly demonstrates his bias and denigrates older SDF members.
To be honest I haven't been on the forum for a long time but for the time I have been, Patch is easily at the top when looking at the value per post ratio. There are others behind him, but quantitative the gap is quite big and qualitative it is even bigger
Most likely he meant it for the forum's military side which is fair as the forum's primary purpose is for military discussion. Of course in the politics/econ/tech threads of the forum we easily have far more "valuable" members there (especially at the IC thread as you mentioned)
He didn't ban anyone, did he? So while he may be biased (as all of us are), but as long as this doesn't cloud his judgement then why would anyone care? What I have seen so far is a great degree of professionalism and self-control/restraint which obviously bodes well for the future of the forum
If I may, I did notice a certain policy on the LessCredibleDefense reddit that I also do frequent to also get my fill of Chinese military content. Here's the rule:
Besides the fact the members who don't have a defense background can't understand these abbreviated Jargon in your rules, how does it make sense to have a rule that forbids asking about anything classified?
What an extremely US-centric view, there is a reason why this forum isn't in Chinese or hosted on a .cn domain. This is because the sensitive information hosted here would get shut down already by the Chinese gov, like the other Chinese language defense forum. So hosting information that harms Chinese military interests is ok on SDF but somehow hosting information that may harm US military interests is not?
This whole forum with the exception of a couple of section is literally built on inciting chinese people to post risqué military information. Suddenly someone who claims to have ties to US intelligence community gets into a heated discussion here then we all start to focus on OPSEC? Your line of reasoning further convinces me this forum is a western Honeypot.
I know what colour the queen's underwear is. Anyone who badgers me for more information needs to be banned.
I am literally quoting someone. More than that, however, is the fact that acronyms are common practice in military spaces, at least in English-speaking ones. If you want to know what an acronym means, just type "OPSEC military acronym" on google and see what it means. It isn't hard.
It's easy enough. Ask what the thrust of the F119 engine is to an SME. If they say that that's classified then stop badgering them for an answer.
Nice of you to assume my position right there. No, posting Chinese military secrets is not okay. I'll say this in case someone reading this is a part of the PLA or an engineer for one of the Chinese companies: f*cking don't. Your government has worked extremely hard to keep that information under wraps and there is no internet argument in existence that is worth winning that is worth leaking PLA military secrets to the US DoD.
Mate, this isn't my first day on this forum. What kind of posts do you think this forum gets? Pictures from airshows or parades or exercises that is publicized by the Chinese government and the rare, grainy photos taken by civilians that is too poor-resolution to be of any strategic interest to American military analysts interspersed with the rare studies on aerodynamics that is already available for access in the public domain. If there's any information posted here that could damage PLA's INFOSEC then it should be removed immediately. Any war that China has to fight against America or Japan is already going to be expensive, brutal, and bloody enough without some idiot leaking detailed J-20 and FC-31 radar models and kinematics to the bloody yanks!