TigerTiger writes,

Again, there must be some misunderstanding on his/her part of what I actually wrote.

To clarify, I teach Frequent Flyer classes (at no financial gain to me) to all kinds of people involved in the trade show exhibit industry, just because I love travel and love to share whatever knowledge I have. These students are, I imagine, colleagues, and hopefully will become friends.

I also have personal travel cards that I give out when I travel(I talk to everybody) and these cards contain the FlyerTalk website. Over the years I have invited at least 1,000 people to the site.

Now, what I actually said regarding these new invitees is that recently they have reported that they come to FlyerTalk, post and then when they come back can't find their posts and then become frustrated and simply leave FlyerTalk for good.

I have also spoken with a number of long-time FlyerTalkers who are displeased with the heavy handed manner in which posts are closed and moved and also to many who are angry that people are timed-out, with no explanation and no clear, definable rules. This is especially frustrating when there are clear incidents of severe TOS violation that are simply ignored.

While it is good to seek order on FlyerTalk, for the administration to do so at the cost of the respect and participation of long-time FlyerTalkers, and at the further cost of all of the joy, fun and spontaneity that has made the FlyerTalk community what it is, is a very grave error.

You must have me confused with someone else who complained about too much junk to sort through. I am firmly positioned in the, "If it doesn't please you, just don't read it" camp. That is the reason I often seem/am totally unaware of some of the raging conflicts on FT.

[This message has been edited by Punki (edited 04-21-2002).]