First of all let me say this: I see the most important goal, that the opener of a thread receives a reliable answer. Before I do any action as a moderator, I think first what I can I do in favour for the opener of the thread and second what in favour for the spirit of FlyerTalk (eg ability to search in a timely manner, others do not get board).

As I foresaw, there are members who will blame me, that I closed this thread. Honestly speaking, if the same situation come to pass, I would do the same move again.

There are some members who accept this move, others argue, I made the wrong decision. curts contribution is quite helpful to discuss about the intention of the second group:

The topic of the thread in question was cutbacks in F and not about Currywurst places. I tried to explain, that we also have valuable (more silent) members who are interested to read, if LH did cutback in F. If these people see a new post since their last visit and look it up, they maybe are as annoyed to read about sausage sellers as others about closed threads.

Randy & his team decided that within FlyerTalk Miles (stick with FlyerTalk Miles for all your miles and points information) he offers a LH forum where the discussion regarding Lufthansa Miles & More takes place. Besides that, he introduced FlyerTalk Travel, FlyerTalk Dining, FlyerTalk Airports & FlyerTalk Archives with countless boards to the community. There must be reasons for that; maybe one, that a structure is very important and if we try to stick to that structure, the quality of discussion could improve.

Randy & his team sees three primary roles for moderators. They enforce the rules, provide first-level dispute resolution and guide posters towards good behaviour. Enforcing the rules is the obvious task, and moderators will be called upon to take real action, by closing threads, moving them, and even removing them altogether. More often, though, he hopes that moderators will be able to guide posters towards good behaviour.

I see two points in this statement:
1. our forum: LH forum is not a place defined by some contributors. It goes without saying that our ability to post here is purely at the will Randy and his team. He & his team have compiled guidelines and rules to help us get the most from our FlyerTalk experience.

2. Why do we have moderators? Randy & his team thought that FlyerTalk needs some help to keep things running smoothly. He looked for volunteers and asked – among others - to be a supporter of the current moderation criteria. I applied and was accepted. After a while, Randy and his crew can decide if it was worth establish moderation on the LH board at all or – more specifically - if I did more harm than good and he will replace me.

To conclude, as the LH forum is the wrong place for these issue, I close this thread and as LH738 suggests, I bring this discussion to Randy's attention.

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