Lordy me! what self-referential tosh. The premise outlined by the OP is plain silly, and although a few subscribers have managed to get in some words of sense, there's been a wave of indulgent babble and grandstanding.

The forum is part of an internet bulletin board; a blog of sorts. It's set up, ostensibly, to attract contributions on BA's Executive Club; but inevitably this moves into comment on the airline. Comment helpful, comment useful, negative, positive and just plain silly: it's all here. As it should be.

A subset of contributors and readers is upset at negative comment, AKA criticism, and would like to exercise some form of censorship to get rid of threads which discomfort them, preserving the type of environment epitomised in the current smug-fest of the "celebrity" thread. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...t-heeeere.html.