Re: The endless influx of low-quality, low-realism, quantity-over-quality aircraft into FGAddon

Yes, nothing is stopping anyone from adding to documentation or anything
else. But as I stated previously, contributing takes many forms. And
"talking about stuff" seems to me rather dismissive. I'll go back to
"rolling up one's sleeves" is different for all of us. And I'm certainly in
agreement that if someone just opens a topic in the forum and says "hey do
this" without any serious thought, then FG should ask that person to
qualify what he's asking for, to provide some real justification, to talk
about what effort was put in that led to that "demand." There is nothing
wrong with that. I believe that is the point of the discussions here. The
FG project should be able to take critique and criticism from testing and
analysis on all levels and "talking about stuff" should result in some
kinds of resolutions or maybe even consensus or at least the notion that
it's a serious topic. I still maintain that the aim is to improve FG
overall. But I think the notion that posting is just aimed at "talking
about stuff" comes off as a rather defensive, thin skinned response to
serious topics.

On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 6:07 AM James Turner <[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> On 27 May 2026, at 10:54, Willie Fleming <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Its a volunteer project and Im not volunteering to put up with those
> attitudes to try make the place a little more welcomi g and user friendly.
> I wish you luck but you are dealing with too many hidebound grumpy old guys
> who are enjoying their own little circle jerk.
> Shame cos its a really good simulator crippled by crap documentation and
> crappier attitudes.
>
>
> Please do remember, everyone contributing is doing this for fun : possibly
> Type 2 fun, but still. It’s very easy to suggest things which are sensible,
> but which are in fact, /work/, not fun.
>
> Everyone has a different idea what fun and work look like, but complaining
> that someone else’s definition, is the reason you won’t contribute, seems
> like a self-defeating argument. The thing that counts is *doing stuff*
> (which largely means commits / fixes to code / aircraft / docs / the
> website. As opposed to ’talking about stuff’ here / on the forum. So if you
> want to complain how bad the docs are, I’ll take your comments a lot more
> seriously when you’ve made 20+ commits to:
>
> https://gitlab.com/flightgear/documentation
>
> Now, maybe that’s *not* fun for you, so it won’t happen, but that’s
> entirely under your control : no one else’s attitude is stopping you doing
> that :)
>
> Kind regards,
> James
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