Originally Posted by
magic111
Once again the evidence surrounds you. If you followed the Robert Briscoe link above and looked around you would have read that IB had an average 94 million unique views a month for all their holdings. Not sure what amount was FTs but do know that FT is near the largest. If you break it into their Travel section you would have found out that there were 146 million visits (not unique) and once again FT is amongst the largest with the most percentage.
I very much hope (and in all honesty believe) that you don't think FT gets all these views because people are impressed by the moderation. It does not.
What attracts these views are the posts. It is you (in your capacity of being a member), me, and about eight or nine thousand other posters who provide the content which draws people to FT.
It should not be forgotten that if FT got rid of all the moderators, all the TB members, and reduced the quality of the software to the poorest available there would still be a FlyerTalk, albeit one of lower quality.
On the other hand, if the posters were to disappear, so would FlyerTalk. The moderators would be left with no one to moderate, TalkBoard would have no reason to make any decisions at all, and the world's greatest software would go unused.
That is what makes it so disappointing to see a moderator express the following attitude:
Originally Posted by
eightblack
My personal opinion is that I am accountable to Carol and ultimately to IBB. No one else.
(snip)
Because as far as I'm concerned, if I had any influence over IB, I'd campaign with equal voracity to eliminate TB tomorrow. Pointless existence if you ask me...