Originally Posted by
tev9999
TA does not use moderators, at least not as the first level of control. They rely on the community to self police. After X number of people reporting a post, it automatically gets deleted without human intervention. All it takes is a few members ganging up via PM and your post can be gone in minutes. There is a way to complain and have a human look at it to be reopened, but it seems to be intentionally designed to make it difficult to figure out how to contact someone. I understand that there is a limit to how many times you can report posts in a particular time frame to prevent abuse, but it does not seem to help much.
There should be safeguards to prevent automatic deletion abuse. Its at the stage where its not commonly known to many users of TA.
With hotels I noticed, that its difficult to obtain consistent rave reviews. All of the hotel ratings seem to bunch up in the middle of the pack.