Droneklax , I ask this with respect, but nonetheless some puzzlement: Why does this continue to be something you feel the need to bring up? By my count this makes the fourth thread and the third forum on which you've commented on this in some way:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum50/HTML/009518.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/005186.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/005272.html

I am not trying to censor you (as if I could), but I don't understand why you keep bringing this up and wanting some sort of "official" action. Several reasons come to mind for me to ask that question: First, in your opening post on http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum50/HTML/009518.html you say, in part, Necessity being the mother of all Evils, I am asking myself the question because I am short of SWUs, and if the consensus is that "gifting"is OK, I'll gift . And while that thread didn't reach that sort of "consensus" (if such is even possible on this sort of medium), there was a great deal of mostly good discussion of this issue in http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/005186.html which you initiated, much of it a helpful parsing of the issues involved. Second, I am simply curious as to why you are focusing on SWU's? Late-lamented 500 miler certs had the same "void if bartered" language, as do the 15% coupons that get bandied around, as do, iirc, even the fairly worthless new-style UA car upgrade coupons, etc., etc. Is there something about SWU's (as opposed to these others) that particularly bothers you? Third, IF there was a consensus on the thread I cited in #2, I think it was that the community has been fairly good about enforcing outright solcitations for cash. Fourth, I think asking Randy to comment on this and to take the action I suspect you think is necessary (enforcing the no trading rules scrupulously) puts him in a bind -- to truly enforce the T&C's of this forum is probably to ask him to dedicate a staff member to this; and, as I said, I think on the whole the community is fairly good about self-policing and the egregiousness of things both tends to be heightened by each new influx of newbies and gets pretty well moderated over time.

It is certainly possible that I am being a pollyana or simply rationalizing, but I do think (or maybe rationalize) that there are indeed matters of degree here, not absolutes. You've also asked the Talk Board to take this issue up and I assume that they will do so (although -- digression -- on this and lots of other issues, it would be helpful to have some regular reporting from that group too).

I really am respectfully seeking your response, and am not just flaming.

Chuck