Re: new members introduction thread - important that new members introduce themselfs!
MIG 21, as a fresh member, you are not yet given the power to private message. you have to reach a certain amount of posts to get that power (don't remember how many). country vs country threads always start flame wars, that's from experience, so we close them pretty much as fast as they appear, if you see one, you can report it and you can be sure we'll close it when one of the mods get to it. this is because people can get very nationalistic when others are assulting their country. americans and chinese alike can get emotional when other insult their nation. this is an international forum because the internet is international, everyone is welcome to join except for those that are already banned from this forum or any of our other sister forums. but this is a forum dedicated to CHINESE military, with a side international military threads. if you want strictly international military forum, you are welcome to join Defence talk (one of our sister forums).
all mods and admins exercise our powers from experience and need of the forum, we also follow rules that's been established for the forum. if a rule is broken or we believe that there's a chance a rule will be broken in a thread, we'll exercise the power given to us. we don't allow any country bashing in this forum, so comments like "but seems as opresive as the PRC goverment but by all means excercise your power" you can keep to yourself. i don't think you have ever visited mainland china, so don't comment if you don't know.
If you ever decide to question a moderator or admin, be sure to remember this, you will get a warning for it, because we only exercise power when we think its neccessary, and when we do, you can be sure we have the entire support of the mod/admin team and that it the moderating is needed.
Read the rules and regulations before posting. (this is for all other new members too)