Intrepid1

I'm sorry but I think the advice cited above was "interesting and helpful" but I'm not convinced it was necessarily any more "expert" than that given by others.

As to genuflecting to the stars...well, that speaks for itself.

ThinGorjus

Oh, come on!! My postings above are tongue-in-cheek, meant to be fun. I like to play the drunken fool, but you don't come all the way to the US from London, graduate from Dartmouth and Penn, help run a huge American fashion house, get a PA teaching license, and then go on to run a dept. at an auction house by being an idiot.

Some of you have no sense of humour at all. Is your life really that horrid that you take the rants and raves on a message board seriously?????

I only come here to practice my typing.

Cheers,
John G.

jlm_mi

There seems to be an awful lot of misinformation on this thread!

The "editors" are not "moderators". They are book editors. Read the threads from some of them over on the US board for more. They have nothing to do with the website. They're job is to make books, not to make the site run better or to make sure the "bad" posts disappear.

And why should their opinions have to be "more expert" for them to post here? Since when is "interesting and helpful" not enough? They're just people who have an opinion on something related to travel, and they're willing to share it with others here. If it's interesting and helpful, shouldn't that be enough?????

Phread

No one has mentioned the whole conflict of interest issues either. I am new here, but I could foresee the editors defending or promoting the Fodor point of view.

Eloise

I don't really see a conflict-of-interest issue here, unless you think that Fodors charges hotels and restaurants for listing them or, God forbid!, take bribes or kickbacks.

Since I am 99.99% certain that Fodors does none of the above, there is not much possibility of conflict of interest.

If a Fodors editor suggests Montepulciano rather than Montalcino, I don't see that s/he is doing anything different from what all the users are doing: expressing personal preferences based on experience.

Dreamer2

May I suggest a separate forum for the inner circle stars, and overqualified expatriots. Then they can happily ignore the riffraff and editors.

cigalechanta

Editors, I wish you'd bring back darking the posts on a thread when we are searching for someone.

rex

topping... and I find it rather amusing that there was ever a concern that they would be butting in (too much)... hardly a trace of their presence in the past month, even when complaints and questions are e-mailed directly to them.