Originally Posted by ozstamps
Well there are many constituent components of FlyerTalk membership.
Some folks as you rightly say do not know each other. You sound like you are part of that sector. You are very new here, and do I hope you get along to some Doos and meet some of your fellow FT'ers. Your views may change then.
I am pleased to say I have met well
over 300 different FlyerTalkers in person. On six continents. Some a dozen times. That is about 1% of all those registered here.
I have made some superb friendships among them, some of which will be lifelong I hope.
So it truly saddens me to see a totally un-necessary feature being enabled that causes much bitterness, and divisiveness among folks that do NOT know each other - that might otherwise get along just fine.
Allowing
childish cowards to leave nasty worded dings allegedly signed by me (and many others) to some of their FT friends is not a thing
Randy would be proud was occurring on his board. IMHO.
Those that (repeatedly) did so have shown enormous disrespect to
Randy, and to their fellow members, IMHO, and I trust they are fully exposed.
Just my 2c.
I did not realize the dimension of this dimension of FT. Sounds great. I, too, hope to make some events.
Separately, I understand completely your ire with people who usurp your name and use to create bad feelings. Cowardly indeed. I did not mean to say, either that I think it is OK to ding anonymously. I do believe in standing behind my words and opinions and do not respect people who don't.
I was annoyed over the much more minor issue of getting dinged anonymously till I realised it wasn't worth it. Of course no harm was coming to me or to my relationships with others as was occurring in your case.
I wish you satisfaction in unmasking those who thought they could harm you or others from the shadows.
Best wishes.