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Why are some moderator and administrator gods on forums rude and/or abusive?

Moderators are rude and abusive for the same reason police are rude and abusive. They have power over others. The saying “power corrupts” isn’t just for show.

To be more nuanced, people in situations like that get used to using their power, and when there is no substantial oversight, they can easily resolve their cognitive dissonance (caused by them being jerks) by justifying their behavior to themselves. Over time, these small justifications grow into a corrupt mindset that easily wields abuse without a second thought.

In addition, these kinds of people prioritize their own time over others. Even if it took you 30 minutes to create a post or question or content of some kind on a moderated site, the moderator only sees that it's taking their 60 seconds to look at it. And because there’s literally infinite amount of busy-body moderating they could do, they always feel rushed and take shortcuts to “get more done”. They don’t realize that it isn’t a moderators job to “get everything done”, it's simply to utilize what little time they have to help out with the forum/wiki/etc. Getting to every complaint should not be the goal. And yet mods seem to make it their goal.

Thirdly, the types of people [who] become mods (or police) are often the types of people that enjoy those kinds of power and enjoy holding them over others. They’re exactly the types of people ripe for abuse of powers like that.

Without a concerted and sustained effort to only accept moderators that are committed to fair treatment of the users they moderate, and without practical oversight over moderators, moderators tend to become toxic parts of their community who only destroy the work of others and oppress the users they moderate. Moderators can’t be the oversight for other moderators, because they’re too similar. Too often moderators band together and support each other in their perverse actions, just as cops do. There must be a way for users to count their complaints about moderators. But very few sites think about these issues. That’s why Reddit, Stack Exchange, Wikipedia, and so many others are cesspools of busy body jerks that have no check on their power.

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DCS: Mi-8MTv2 Hip

Type: Transport helicopter

National origin: Soviet Union/Russia

First flight: 7 July 1961
Introduction: 1967

Operators: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Guinea, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Libya, Lithuania, Maldives, Mali, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Transnistria, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Nations, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen (Houthi movement - captured)

Former operators: Bangladesh, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Guyana, Latvia, Yugoslavia

Number built: >17,000 and production continues today (world's most-produced helicopter)

Performance Specifications

Normal takeoff weight: 11,100 kg
Maximum takeoff weight: 13,000 kg

Cargo capacity:
Normal: 2,000 kg
Maximum (with full main fuel tanks): 4,000 kg
Troops: 21-24
Medical stretchers: 12

Maximum level flight speed at atltitude 0 - 1000 m:
Normal takeoff weight: 250 km/h
Maximum takeoff weight: 230 km/h

Cruising speed at altitudes 0 - 1000 m:
Normal takeoff weight: 220-240 km/h
Maximum takeoff weight: 205-215 km/h

Hover ceiling with normal takeoff weight out of ground effect (ISA): 3960 m

Service ceiling:
Normal takeoff weight: 5500 m
Maximum takeoff weight: 3900 m

Range at an altitude of 500 m and cruising speed with full main fuel tanks before 5% fuel reserve reached:
Cargo load 2117 kg: 495 km
Cargo load 4000 kg: 465 km
One full internal auxiliary fuel tank: 725 km
Two full internal auxiliary fuel tanks (ferry range): 950 km

Armament

Unguided rocket system: B8V20-A (Б8В20-А) rocket launchers (pods) firing 80 mm unguided rockets with various warhead types
Cannon pod system: UPK-23-250 (УПК-23-250) gun pods equipped with GSh-23L (ГШ-23Л) twin-barrel 23 mm cannon
Machine gun pod systems: GUV-8700 (ГУВ-8700) gun pod (index 9-A-669) equipped with either YakB-12.7 (ЯкБ-12.7) (index 9-A-624) and GShG-7.62 (ГШГ-7.62) (index 9-A-622) machine guns or with the AGS-17 (АГС-17) (index 9-A-800) grenade launcher

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DCS: L-39 Albatros

Aero L-39 Albatros (L-39C/L-39ZA)

Type: Basic and advanced trainer

National origin: Czechoslovakia

First flight: 4 November 1968
Introduction: 28 March 1972 (Czechoslovak Air Force)

Users: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cuba, Czech Republic, East Germany, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Hungary, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Libya, Lithuania, Mozambique, Nigeria, North Korea, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

Number built: 2,900 (most successful subsonic trainer)

Specifications

General characteristics

Crew: 1 or 2
Length: 12.13 m (39 ft 9½ in)
Wingspan: 9.46 m (31 ft 0½ in)
Height: 4.77 m (15 ft 7¾ in)
Wing area: 18.8 m² (202 ft²)
Airfoil: NACA 64A012 mod
Empty weight: 3,455 kg (7,617 lb)
Max. takeoff weight: 4,700 kg (10,362 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × Ivchenko AI-25TL turbofan, 16.87 kN (3,792 lbf)

Performance

Never exceed speed: Mach 0.80 (529 knots, 609 mph, 980 km/h)
Maximum speed: 750 km/h (405 knots, 466 mph) at 5,000 m (16,400 ft)
Range: 1,100 km (593 nmi, 683 mi) (internal fuel); 1,750 km, (944 nmi, 1,087 mi) (internal and external fuel)
Endurance: 2 hr 30 min (internal fuel), 3 hr 50 min (internal and external fuel)
Service ceiling: 11,000 m (36,100 ft)
Rate of climb: 21 m/s (4,130 ft/min)
Wing loading: 250.0 kg/m² (51.3 lb/ft²)
Thrust/weight: 0.37
Climb to 5,000 m (16,400 ft): 5 min
Take-off roll: 530 m (1,740 ft)
Landing roll: 650 m (2,140 ft)

Standard Electronics include:

R-832 M two-band radio
SPU-9 crew intercom
RKL-41 ADF
RV-5 radio altimeter
MRP-56 P/S marker beacon receiver
RSBN-5S navigation and landing system
GNS430 (optional, paid addon) *

* It's not really worth it, unless maybe it's on sale or you want it that badly, as it lacks a lot of functionality (I guess it's ok for DCS but it'd be nice if they improved it). Like the Mi-8, C-101 and perhaps others by now, the GNS430 addon is implemented naturally into the cockpit of the L-39C (when the game option is selected to remove its gunsight, which also provides a nicer view).

The L-39ZA is not affected and the GNS430 is not implemented as part of its cockpit, its gunsight is kept no matter what and this seems to make sense, it's the more heavily armed version anyway. The gun sight assembly can be removed out of the L-39C anyway, the option to remove it (with the Editor or whatever) is not part of the GNS 430 addon.

Armament (L-39ZA):

Guns:
GS-23L 23 mm twin-barrel cannon
PK-3 7.62x54 mm machine gun pods

Bombs:
FAB-100 100 kg general-purpose bomb
FAB-250 250 kg general-purpose bomb
OFAB-100 100 kg high drag bomb
P-50T 50 kg practice bomb
SAB-100 night illumination flare

Rockets:
S-5KO

Air-to-air missiles:
R-60M "Aphid"
R-3S "Atoll"

Other comments:
Here is some interesting and useful info: http://www.warbirdalley.com/articles/l39pr.htm