Granted, this is a couple of years old, but I think it illustrates the mindset of the moderators at A.net.  I know that there have been changes amongst the moderators, but their overall feeling of superiority seems to prevail.

You guys are gonna love this! Here is the response I got from Airliners.net when I said I would cancel,

"Dear Melissa,

First of course, if you want to cancel your membershuip, have at it. Use the DELETE USER button on the bottom right of your profile. You'll be gone in a flash. Tomorrow, a dozen people will join this site that will be of benefit to the site. If this post is an indication of your typical post, Airliners.net would probably be better off without your input.

Now, as for your post. If you don't see the Low Quality here, then I'm baffled. It has nothing to do really with the veiled attempt to disguide the word **** with a couple of asterisks. People applaud landings all the time. Whether they are aboard Russian airliners, Boeing airliners or Airbus airliners. Your post was Low Quality, bordering on elementary school level. It added nothing to the thread. It provoked several responses that were also deleted. I should have banned you for that in and of itself. Posters that cause cascade deletions generally get canned for a couple of days anyway.

It was suggested for deletion, I wholeheartedly concurred, and deleted the post.

As for starting your own site - enjoy yourself. I'm sure it will never equal Airliners.net. None that I'm aware do, although there are many imitators out there. Again, if your post I deleted is any indication of the quality of "your" web site, Airliners.net has nothing to worry about.

ANCFlyer/ Mr. Pepper
Forum Moderator"

To admit full disclosure, here is the entire post from which I quoted the above:

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I really don't think her joke was all that humorous either, but the tone of the reply says a lot.