<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Ferrari:
A few days I posted a topic. ( http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum95/HTML/003089.html )
I posted this at 6.12 am and by 7.58am the moderators came in and lock the thread, on the grounds of being boring.!.</font>
I think you've misunderstood. Ralf isn't a native English speaker, and I think that he was simply saying that there is no shortage of traffic on this board, so we don't need off-topic messages to make up volume.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Ferrari:
The topic was relevant to me as I hade just had something stolen from a checked bag....I am going to complain to the TSA, I want to get an idea of the frequency of this type of event.</font>
The topic may be relevant to you, but it isn't relevant to this forum, which is "The official get together page for the FlyerTalk community." A more appropriate choice for your topic might have been TravelBuzz, or as
tazi suggested on the thread in question, Travel/Security.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Ferrari:
If people don't want to read threads they won't...at least give me a chance to post what I want..(Freedom of speech).</font>
This is a private bulletin board. No freedom of speech rights exist. Your ability to post here is purely at the whim of Randy and his team. They can, quite legitimately, do whatever they want with this board and its content.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Ferrari:
My post was neither offensive or off topic...why then?.
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Your original post was off-topic, and properly belonged in TravelBuzz. This post is off-topic, and probably belongs in Suggestions or Talkboard, where several threads discussing moderation already exist.
[This message has been edited by MatthewClement (edited 02-26-2003).]