<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by avek00:
ClueByFour:
I'm afraid that you are confusing the right to express dissenting and critical views with ad hominem attacks, which is the REAL problem.</font>
No, I'm afraid you are trying to blur the dicussion. Again.
The problem is
not ad hominem attacks. They are prompted by the initial troll. The purpose of a troll, after all, is to provoke such things.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">There's no question that I have some views of United which go against the prevailing opinions on the United forum. However, expressing those views should in no way be equated with trolling. What IS trolling, however, is the efforts of a select few FTers to poison or otherwise derail nearly every thread that you listed.</font>
Again, you are blatently misrepresenting the situation, but I'll roll with it.
Since you have refused to address the questions I've raised, I will rephrase in the hopes of getting a straight answer:
Do you feel that your previous/current style of posting material that does nothing to contribute to the stated mission of Flyertalk (..." the business at hand: conversing about programs, how to make the most of your miles and points"...) should be advocated by a talkboard member, especially in light of the fact that it generally invites a very natural and expected reaction that detracts from the stated purpose of Flyertalk?
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I hope that should I be elected to the TalkBoard, I can count upon your leadership as a moderator to reign in the frequent personal attackers once and for all.</font>
Alas, it's not about me. I'm not a candidate for Talkboard. You are, and it's my position that a candidate should answer questions directly posed to him/her (in leiu of doing everything possible to duck the question, re-focus attention on an ancillary issue, re-focus attention on another individual, etc). Failure to do so will simply resonate with folks who vote. It's your choice.
So that you are aware of my position, the forum that I moderate has perhaps the fewest numbers of trolls of any airline forum on Flyertalk. It also has a very, very low number of personal attacks. This is not a coincidence.
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