Randy,

I started a thread on Community, where I requested the help of my fellow FTers to locate a member of our community. The thread in question can be found here:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=880823

Now... before I posted, I contacted one of the moderators to ask whether it would be a violation of TOS to post such a thread. I did not receive a straight answer...only something like "why dont you use PM...." ...???!!!!

A couple of days after this "not very useful" exchange of messages with this moderator.... since I got no straight answer I went ahead and started the thread.

Ive just seen that my now another moderator has jumped in to save the day - and closed my thread.

What is going on...?

- Im not attacking or flaming anybody
- I asked one of the moderators before posting
- Im not looking to cause any trouble... I just want help from folks in finding this FTer

Am I asking too much....? Is it that hard to understand that by locking this thread... it will eventually get lost under all the others and fewer FTers will have a chance to see that Im looking to find someone...?

Sorry, but this kind of moderation just makes no sense... (I assure you harsher words & concepts come to mind right now).