Sure, William. I'm happy to explain.

First off, I take my moderation cue from the descirption of the Community forum from the top page of Flyertalk.


Specifically, it reads:

FT Community
"The official get together page for the FlyerTalk community."

I asked myself the same question about the two threads you bring up: what makes either or neither of them on topic?

In my estimation, the thread labeled "blackout effect" had nothing to do with FT get-togethers. But the thread titled Don't know what to do after school .... was marginally, if barely, relevant to the forum.

Frankly, on second thought I don't think the latter thread belongs here, and it will be locked and moved to OMNI.

BTW, my handle is essxjay, not essexjay as you put it in the title bar.

A little aside about my handle:

My initials are S and J. As I have no middle name, X was assigned as a placeholder initial for my three-letter call sign at work years ago. "essxjay" is just the phonetic spelling of "SXJ" - a strange custom in my work world.

[This message has been edited by essxjay (edited 08-13-2001).]