Moderator 1 wrote "At the end of the day, the bottom line, take home message is that FlyerTalk Miles is for the discussion of Miles & Points, not whiskey, not kids in first class, not tipping the FA's, and not if overweight people should buy 10 seats or not. All that is for FlyerTalk Travel, period. "

Thank you very much. I don't have that much time on my hands so a quick visit to the buzz and the AA forum is usually all I have time for. I check those forums for mileage and AA related issues respectively. Having to wade through allot of none mileage related issues in the Buzz reduces the forums utility for me and obviously I am not alone. When I have more time or I want to research a topic that is not mileage related I will often visit other forums like Travel and trip reports (thank you to all who post their trip reports, good source of ideas and travel inspiration and just plain fun to read many of them).

Bottom line is that FT will have more utility for us all if we stick to topics that are related to the forum description (if I wanted to know about tipping FA's would I really think of searching the Buzz first?)As some have difficulty figuring out which forum is the most appropriate one (he wrote while perpetuating an off topic thread ) I think a moderator who will help the forum stay on topic is a great asset to us all.

Sure we could have FT without moderators but we have had that and while it was good(Ok great ) FT with moderators is a better site because it is more organized and thus a more useful site to visit. So let me just add my vote of thanks and my support to the volunteer moderators who do indeed have a difficult and often thankless job.

FWIW moving a topic to another more appropriate forum is not censorship IMO (even if it is moved off FT entirely as there are plenty of places on the internet where someone can freely publish their non travel related thoughts)

Now, how about moving this topic out of the Buzz

[This message has been edited by Mvic (edited 08-12-2001).]