I have kept myself mercifully disconnected from this thread for several days. I haven't seen any of the incendiary material referring to M.O.M's D I E S E L.
If we've "lost D I E S E L" as a result of something that was posted here, D I E S E L is not the only member we're going to lose.
New guys, take notes: you are the NEW GUYS. This does not imbue you with the power to piss off long-term members of this club who happen to have pissed you off. All running jokes about "rules" aside, M.O.M has one, and only one, rule; look to your own conscience, play your game, have fun. Dogfight has a system of discipline in place. It's called "The ModSquad". Moderators whose job it is to mete out disciplinary action when it's deemed necessary. We don't vilify, persecute or crucify players, certainly not fellow squad members, in M.O.M. Am I quite clear?
As I understand it D I E S E L wasn't recognized as a legitimate member of M.O.M. A tip: if you can't even be bothered to learn the names of your fellow squad members, take a step back, count to ten, then STFU.
I personally recruited D I E S E L. He's a decent, intelligent, funny, solid family man, a helluva a player and a valued member of M.O.M. If you have a problem with him, you have a problem with me. If you have a problem at all, with anyone in this squad, you bring it to me, you DO NOT POST IT ON THE THREAD.
One of the first players to blow me down after we implemented Rule 11 was Brian Strachan. Anyone unhappy with B? Anyone with a few weeks in M.O.M under his belt think B needs to get the boot?
Here's what's going to happen: we're going to stop airing our displeasure with other players - fellow M.O.Ms, Falcons, ANYONE - in public on this thread. We are going to bring our complaints and concerns to me. Not here, not on the blacklist thread, not anywhere on the forum. To ME. I'm a Moderator fercrissakes, use your head. I expect more from M.O.Ms so as a Mod I come down harder on M.O.Ms than on anyone else. You bring your complaints to me and if they're valid they'll be posted to the ModSquad and/or on the Blacklist thread. But first we'll determine that you have any idea what you're talking about.
While we're on the subject of "new guys": we'll be taking a break from the incessant posting of "Look how great I am!" screen caps. I don't want to see anymore of your 100+ kill boasts. I don't care. No real M.O.M does. We don't crow about our prowess. We play, we kill, we win, we see what's on TV. Chest thumping over meaningless non-accomplishments like triple digit scores is for noobs. By the way, there are a great many noobs enjoying impressive scores, too. They rack up their numbers the same way you do; with bigger, faster tablets and updated game ballistics that favor interminably long missions wherein higher scores are a natural byproduct. There is nothing special about your 120 kills. Post a clip of you beating Rickenfaker or 420 in a chase 100 times, (or even once) then perhaps I'll be impressed. Flying straight, meeting in the middle, winning an endless series of coin-toss chicken runs...bragging about this is the kind of nonsense I expect of some other squads, not of M.O.M. Adjust your posts accordingly from now on.
Questions? That's my PM address right there to the left of this text.