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Old Nov 4, 2007, 10:18 am
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As Randy Petersen has made clear in the past, the Talkboard's purview does not include moderation. While he (or Internet Brands) may change that stance in the future, it's reasonable to believe that they won't.

The question itself is also suspect: member Punki is, despite Randy having made it clear that the Talkboard has no purview over moderation, running for Talkboard on that basis anyway. It's akin to running for dog-catcher on a platform of income tax reform.

With that said, the sentiment expressed above is accurate: if the moderation practices on Flyertalk were egregious as the question would lead one to believe, FT would surely not be growing. It is, because %99.9 of the FT membership does not notice or think about moderation practices. Of the remaining %0.0.1, it seems that only those that continually run afoul of those practices (up to and including discussing it with Randy and not liking his answers) seem to have a problem. Part of my campaign platform is not to mess with what works, and that's certainly applicable here.
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