<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by nako:
The OMNI registration, for example, was designed to help curb trollers and be a way to allow the moderators to deal with TOS violations in a proactive manner. Despite this, though, I don't think there have been more than a handful of people whose OMNI priveleges have been revoked - and the TOS violations occur as much as ever.
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I am aware of 2 x FT'ers in particular who have received unpublicised one month time-outs at different times from the OMNI moderators.
Neither person posts anywhere on FT now AFAIK, as I understand they feel this action was un-warranted. I have seen the specific thread objected to in the most recent solo suspension case and on an
'OMNI-aggro-scale-ometer' I have personally scored it as
minus 5 out of 10. No heated abuse, no inappropriate terms or words or nasty name calling, and all VERY civilised discourse I thought
by OMNI standards. Not that my opinion matters one jot, but that is my score. Others are free to rate it themselves:
www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/Forum44/HTML/018424.html
These persons IMHO contributed a
lot of posts and input and ideas to FT elsewhere, in many, many Forums, so I am quietly wondering in my mind how
FLYERTALK benefited in any way from the knock-on from these unilateral actions?
And whether there are many others also on this list?
As my Grandma always said - most dinner table discussions of politics and religion ends up in heated arguments, and thus should be avoided. And on a BB it is no different. Possibly worse.
And all the month time-outs in the world will not change that dynamic. IMHO.
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Glen ~ sipping bubbly from a UA 747-400 exit row 15 near you SOON!
[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited Jan 13, 2004).]