Quote Originally Posted by bytemare View Post
I would imagine if an American wanted to learn Russian, and descended into Politics or General forum and read negativity from moderators about the USA, he or she might not want to participate here or even become turned off with Russian language.

On that logic, I'm surprised that ANYONE in Russia learns English, aren't you? They ought to run crying from most English speaking forums. And as citizens of the only "super power" I should think Americans have a bit thicker skin than that, and the membership here seems to prove it.

It won't do them any harm to hear these types of comments on rare ocassions, and I don't think they need mollycoddling any more than Russians do.

And I wasn't asked BECAUSE of these "tirades", rather DESPITE of them. If you read the posts above, you can see that I commented on them. I am well aware of the potential conflict.

You seem to know English and Russian really well, so why don't you volunteer then, if you are concerned about my performance?

I am serious: I'd quite happily step down, if you agree to take my place, and Lampada agrees. I didn't go out of the way to get the role, it was more a case of stepping up since nobody else did. What do you say?