Flying Mom: I can answer this, let's start backwards. You ask why topic was deleted. My guess is you are relating this to the post by Chek Lap Kok which I moved yesterday. His post in which he rants about this "English" issue and my rebuttal of him, was his reply to this post:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum85/HTML/002351.html

Now, for the life of me, I fail to see where in this post the issue of a moderator and a members' English is the subject. All I saw was one member being a wise ... to another member. No medaretion issues involved and certainly no "English" issues involved. And then all of a sudden I'm a bad guy for moderation and English. As you can see from this post - which is locked - there is no editing and no mention of moderation and English. The thread you are referring to does mention these things, but only as an answer/retort to my action on this thread.

There is absolutely no prior (and to this day) email to me from Check, you or anyone else about the moderation in the CX forum and this English issue. I suppose I can appreciate that you seem to hold me 100% accountable on an issue that you, Chek and no one else bothered to even ask assistance on or even inform me. I find that very suspect. But nonetheless, let's look in to your complaint.

This English issue. It looks like from the evidence as put forth from other members in that forum, that the moderator did in fact take some action on your behalf. You haven't been around long, but we have another member, a member called Arturo, which has been a fixture on FlyerTalk for a very long time. His "identity" on FlyerTalk is associated with broken English - such as what you are posting about. It may have been that in the early days of your posting, other long time members did not know how to take your posting style and may have thought you were trying to become the "Asian Arturo." Honestly, that was my first thought when I looked at this post.

As for the actions of the moderator - he did moderate the issue of your English and did close the thread. Now, you and Chek might not have liked it that he closed it three comments later (and the three posts in the middle were not about your English) but if we closed every single thread based on a single word of infraction, you'd join another member in crying about over moderation. I thought the moderator did a good job. I might have contacted both sq345 and a1983 individually to tell them to back off and I don't know that the moderator did not do that.

I do find that Guy Betsy on this thread is being a bit encroaching and will ask him to back off on this item.

The facts remain: neither you nor Chek ever contacted me. The facts remain that in your recent posts of this neither of you ever included a link to post where your concerns were. I can only help members if they take me on as a partner. I need to know the timely information, where it is and exactly what your point of view is. If after looking things over I can see your point of view and take some action, life is great. If after looking things over I can't seem to side with you, I would only hope that you at least still respect the value of FlyerTalk.

Thanks for your time, but please, make your intentions clear and give supporting facts. The quality of your English in no way offends me, I speak no other language than English and can at least admire you for trying your best at an other langugage.