Originally Posted by
3Cforme
If it reminds the poster that this is a general interest Delta + SkyMiles forum, and that FlyerTalk TOS call for users to browse and search before starting new threads, it has served a useful purpose. The Mod showed some flair, IMHO.
Nah. The search engine is rather crap if you ask me. It's not the worst I've seen but not the best. And here is where it goes wrong. The moderators combined 2 threads about the DL MQM purchase. Thread #1 with about 30 posts (guesstimate) was titled "Hold off on doing that MR...." and the other thread with about 5 posts was called "Delta Announces MQM purchase Program".
Now if you did a search for "MQM Purchase" you might find the second thread. Except the moderator combined it into the first thread, with the headline that is harder to find in a search for threat titles.
I never really understood moderation except to weed out the clearly obvious junk threads, spam, profanity etc. Threads will always take on their own identity.