Well I for one am not confused at all.

Being newly appointed as President of the Avek00 Fan club by the worthy Candidate, I need to tread a fine line here, wearing 2 hats.

One hat as Fan Club President, and one as someone who has been getting rather pisssed off with avek00's new burst of trolling on the UA Forum this week after a thankful month or so of very commendable restraint from him doing so, or seldom posting there at all.

Not all would agree with avek00's definition of "Trolling" above. To come to any forum, and deliberately bait regular users of that airline by posting total and unsourced and unsubstantiated fiction is 'Trolling' by most definitions.

To plain INVENT posts about 'new company policy' and sit back and watch the reaction from folks who realise this is 100% baloney is trolling IMO. And adds NOTHING new or substantative to that forum.

Now with my President cap on, I will not reach into the Archives and post 20 threads like this from January to amply re-enforce that point, as (hopefully?) such juvenile drivel is a thing of the past.

So in fairness, let's just focus on any pertinent posts made THIS week, i.e. since the 'Election Campaign' has been well and truly in play. Any savvy Candidate really serious about getting votes would of course be SUPER mindful of their posts in ALL forums during this period. Well one would think so.

This below was just one example from the past week week in UA, where a respected FT'er, transpac DID feel (and posted thus) that avek00 had made a personal attack on him. Simply as avek's fictional nonsense was exposed for what it was, and he tried to squirm out of the mess:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum.../021066-2.html

Also this week avek tried to incite responses by alleging the UA premium cabins were run down and decrepit. In my view this is not correct at all, and I sat in 6 of them long haul in the last few weeks. When asked when the last time he ever saw, much less SAT in a United Premium It'l cabin avek's response was "the year 2000"!

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum50/HTML/021135.html

Many might say posting totally ill-informed comments such as that, for which one has no recent personal experience whatever is "Trolling". It does not breach the TOS strictly - but IMO it is calculated to create a riot, and more than likely have the thread closed down. However avek00 posts above in this thread seems to feel that is perfectly acceptable. To HIM anyway.

I'd be interested to hear Avek00's take and reasoning on why these posts were NOT TROLLING before I continue on the campaign trail and order those 50,000 buttons. They are on 'hold' right now.

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[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited 08-07-2003).]