It was just there not too long ago? is fodors pulling whatever threads they want????

huh...i didnt see the crash thread...but i did notice that all of the posts i saw yesterday have todays date...im perplexed, and feeling a bit like im being treated as a child

Yep, they deleted that one and a similar thread on the crash on the Europe board. Very sad.

I have deleted it. Get away from that curtain. I am the great Wizard of Fodors.

Get used to it. We are censored now.
Fodors is doing some other procedures I don't like. On the European side, where I visit a lot, the new text editor will not allow foreign alphabet charactres such as those in French with graves and accents. It turns them into question marks. If Fodors is not careful, they are going to throw the baby out with the bath water.
So yeah, the big guy with the delete key is exercising his editorial authority.
I bet this thread will be removed also.
Nothing controversial these days mind you, or else out it goes, face down and head first!!

The crash thread got political, which is a sure-fire ticket to the great beyond. Like Basil Fawlty said once, "Don't mention the war!"

It became much worse than political. It became nasty, vulgar, and abusive. Trust me if you didn't see some of the final posts, we are much better off without it. Although it may have started innocently enough, by the time we got to the end, it needed to go.

Sometimes, posts run their course very quickly. There wasn't much more to be said in that particular post and Fodors was certainly reasonable in deleting it.

Why won't they let a bunch of us who have been posting for years vent without going into a chat room. It did have something to do with travel, did it not?

You are missing the poing vent, it got really, really ugly toward last. That's why Fodor's yanked it.

That may be, but I'm beginning to think they will yank anything that even hints of negativity towards the travel industry. A very innocuous thread on the caribbean forum where 2 posters stated trepidation in flying this winter is gone. No nastiness, no vulgarity and no hostility. Go figure. I don't think Fodors even wants to hear about anyone's fear of flying, as though anything anyone says here will influence people!

If the post became ugly, then Fodors could have easily deleted the nasty posts, not delete the entire thread.
There have been many other posts that when someone answered bad, it was deleted and only the nice posts remained, without taking out the entire thread.
We are being treated as babies.

I posted about 5pm last night and I don't recall there being anything nasty on the post. I was waiting for a response perhaps that came and was nasty.

In the end I am glad that thread is deleted. I work in the financial sector and harping on the events of yesterday as a terrorist attack does only hurt us more. It hurts the markets and then your jobs...you know it is all related. We do need to work on being positive and continue to rebuild.

Jay I understand your thinking but from where I am sitting it impacts my jobs future. sss once again people get negative/fearful about the economy they don't spend. Consumer spending is responsible for roughly 2/3 of our economy. You know the drill once a sector is impacted this trickles to the rest of us in terms of lay offs and the like.

Do I think this should impact the press? No but this is not the press.

sss:
Any business that only looks at the dream side and never discusses it's problems, dooms itself to failure. Examples abound.

sss-I wasn't referring to your post, but the others who think Fodor's has no right to delete stuff. You are right though, this site is not covered under freedom of the press.

As to people not spending and traveling, IMO, there are a lot of neurotic people out there who just have no clue as to the consequences of their hunkering down attitude and I do agree with you. If they would just turn off their television sets and get on with their lives...

That does not address what I have mentioned it is entirely different issue.

I was talking only in last post.