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Old Jul 20, 2012, 11:07 am
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Originally Posted by Jenbel
We don't have time to 'review posts with signatures' as there are thousands of such posts made everyday.

If there were a system that all posts with signatures got trapped and had to be manually reviewed by mods, then mods would probably spend all their free time reviewing posts and clicking to free them onto the boards. And of course, that would make for terribly disjointed conversations, as posts would be appearing out of sequence.

At the end of the day, are signatures really such a massive problem that we want to effectively stop mods having time to read FT, because all their time is spent approving posts with signatures in them? There are actually very few signatures which cause concern - there are a fair few which get pulled up for formatting breaches but fewer ones are found to be in breach.

It just seems like it's an artificial problem, being promulgated by a very few people, but where the solutions will impact on many more people's enjoyment of FT. Our elected representatives are meant to represent the majority, not the minority, and do things for the benefit of FT, not a few folks who want to exercise control.

(And if mods had to sit and approve thousands of posts everyday, I'm sure there would be complaints about the levels of censorship on FT and frankly, quite rightly too )
Bolding mine: Then what pray tell does the "Signature Committee" do?

And as to the rest of your post, imho, it appears to me that you're saying "I don't want to do any more work because it's hard and I won't have time to do it" so with that, I see two options. One is the old saying that if one doesn't like the heat in the kitchen and the other is employ more moderators and/or folks on the Signature Committee plus you keep saying that this (and other issues which you disagree with) are voiced by "a few people" and in the same breath, you say that I was elected to serve all members of Flyertalk so with that, don't "the few" deserve to be heard and/or have a voice as well?
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