Like to clarify something here. It's not my poll. I wasn't looking for anything specific and i actually had nothing to do with the poll, just a rogue Moderator i think!

At the end of the day, a judgement call by me based on my actual experience over the past several years of seeing up front the contentious issues that politics and religion has at times. In fact, it is highly likely that no other single member has seen these contentious items as close as i have and that is something that might be considered by anyone reading in. I think most of us are aware that an outside view and more often, even a ringside view is not nearly the same as the view from the center. As I also explained elsewhere, I did my research and watched and compared considerations with another Web site that actually had far more traffic than FlyerTalk and got their reasons, experience and more importantly, their results since their change was a number of months ago and thus i could trust that they were able to look back over a period of time to see the results. Anyway, hope this helps you get a much more clear picture of this and again, the poll is only a reference point that i stumbled upon. You might respect as well it is always difficult to do any polls since they can be considered the tool of the activist and not necessarily the result of the population. You know, we all this solely on a volunteer basis and try to make as best decisions we can. Now, I do appreciate that there are the armchair quarterbacks and back-seat drivers on FlyerTalk, just as there are on any issues, but generally speaking our gut instinct decisions on what has been right for FlyerTalk has been fairly good, witness the continued growth of Flyer
Talk and for me personally, the increased value of information which I'm able to take advantage of because of the good intentions of our other members.