"In keeping with a goal of FlyerTalk to be the prime destination of members to talk miles and points and travel on the Internet, we have narrowed the ability of members to post to this forum. Its purpose is to create an enviroment to exchange pleasantries of opinion on topics not travel or miles or points related. Also, as an unmoderated forum, it's purpose may sometimes take away from what we are trying to do with FlyerTalk and thus we'll start to isolate its presense outside of the general board areas. Members may still find access in the "Travel" board area but this location is seen as temporary until a solution of convenience is found. Thanks for your understanding and continued thanks for supporting the topic of travel on FlyerTalk."

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum75/HTML/000032.html

AND ALSO

"We/I have decided to take down Only Randy Petersen for an undetermined amount of time. The energy it is taking to monitor that area and the demands of other things important to the board are not synching up. When there is more news on this forum, it will be made available here."

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum75/HTML/000031.html

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While some advance notice would have been nice, one can easily see where this was becoming more and more of a problem each day!

FWIW, at the PPRuNe Bulletin Board, they now post "As this is a very busy forum please limit new topics to items of news or rumour related to public air transport..."

http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/ult...?ubb=forum&f=1

and

"A forum for issues that don't fall into any particular category available in other forums. Due to the excessive workload in policing this forum there will be no political or religious topics allowed. Ideally this forum is for stories and jokes that you can use on the flight deck. So...
** DO NOT ENTER IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED ** "

and

"Due to the almost impossible task of policing these forums I have decided that there will be no more politics or religion discussed on the website. You may consider this decision despotic and you may be right but then who gave you a vote? All current threads that I consider to be too politically or religiously sensitive will be closed and any new ones will be dealt with accordingly. Anyone objecting to this decision can make their complaints in writing to [email protected]. Replies may or may not be forthcoming, depending on my workload or mood. Being a despot has its rewards."

http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/ult...?ubb=forum&f=4

Would this type of approach help here on FT?