"Author: Tries2PakLite
Date: 11/09/2005, 01:39 pm

Bad idea."

Unless it is BillynBettyJones

Just re-read the title of this post and had to chuckle.

Where's the "sharing?" Has anyone even heard back from Mr. Kay?

I don't have any printable thoughts for the editor other than to bring Danny Mangin back.

Someone keeps deleting my favorite T-shirt slogan. So just for kicks here it is again. The T-shirt says:

We have upped our standards.
So up yours.


Well, Mr. Kay, I have upped my standards.

I follow a few forums on Flyertalk and they are all monitored/moderated by volunteers. I know they participate as users also, but the only administrative thing I have seen them do is move a thread to a more proper forum (such as when someone posts a question about airlines in the Europe forum, that would perhaps find more responses in the Ailine forum.)

I suspect this talk feature is not a money-maker for Fodors, so I think they don't put a lot of resources into it. All of us carp and whine when we email the editor and don't get an instant response, or when he posts something and doesn't spend 24/7 at his terminal engaging in banter with us, but I would guess that there is a single person at Fodors handling these duties, and he probably has a lot of other responsibilities, too. So does someone from Fodors read all our posts; if you think that I have a great deal for you on used lottery tickets at half-price.

So I think it is very possible that the talk forums could be improved if volunteers were found to handle certain duties, but I would want their capabilities limited, perhaps to relocating or consolidating threads (a relocated thread would be closed on the original forum, but have a legend showing it was moved to ...) and reining us in when we start going far off topic, or engage in coarse behavious. I recall when registration was starting, there were a lot of people concerned that it would somehot inhibit the forum, but I think the forum is far more pleasant now that we have to, in some degree, stand behind what we post.

There's a first for everything -- I agree with Bob Brown!

Hey Peter, up yours!

Yawn & Bob: while I mostly agree with the assesments of Peter, come on you guys...posts like that don't help the situation at all. Take a deep breath..(:

Forum monitors would be unwelcome here. What about a "venting" forum, for cranky posters!

I believe that is a Bad Idea..We already have too many self appointed, righteous,egomaniacs, knows it all posters.
Freedom of speech,and the right to disagree if done with class and dignity is what we need.

Ditto Ditto! Bad Idea!

I personally couldnt have put it better than "kismetchimera" put it. Its a very fair comment.

TTT