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Jan 4, 2013, 7:57 am

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Originally Posted by LovePrunes

We just lost a decade of history by starting a new thread for the same issue. If anyone wants to browse past compensation they now have to look in TWO places, the old thread and now this new one. NOT particularly helpful. What do we gain by starting a second thread? Can you just keep the old one open? I realize it was started by a banished member but still, it was helpful data.

While it's rare for there to be comments on moderation in a public thread, I realise that many members may wonder why this was done. While some may disagree, many members have communicated privately to the moderators that mega-threads often end up as hundred-page-long storehouses of outdated information. We respect that, in some cases, there are useful details in some of those older posts, in other cases we feel that current experiences will probably provide the best guide for people looking for detail on what to expect in compensation. The old compensation thread was nearly 10 years old when it was closed--compensation from that long ago may have nostalgic value (and thus will not be deleted), but it isn't relevant to passengers looking for detail on what can be expected today.

With the strife at the end of last year having come to a close, current year experiences will soon begin to appear, and those will be most useful. The 2012 and earlier thread will not be deleted, it has merely been closed, and people looking for historical experiences need only click through to that thread to find them.

Any future comments would be welcome via PM.

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