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Old Aug 7, 2018 | 9:45 am
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dulciusexasperis
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This issue only required the OP to contact TA and advise them that a name had been posted, contrary to TA's rules. There was no need to post a question here (and I do not believe that someone who is himself a forum moderator wouldn't know that).

So why was the question posted? Surely not to get an answer to the question. i now read that the OP chose not to contact TA but instead to write a 'strongly worded' e-mail to the hotel. What does 'strongly worded' indicate? To me it indicates a possible threat to escalate. 'Take my name off, or else.' It also indicates to me, an intentional desire to pursue a 'fight' with the hotel rather than simply have TA remove the name. I could speculate that perhaps 'strongly worded' went something like, 'You will remove my name or I as an influential moderator on the Flyer Talk Forum, which is read by thousands of your potential customers, will post your hotel name and your manager's name on that forum, where this issue is being read about at this moment in time. DYKWIA'

If the OP really just wanted an answer to the question as posted, 'do I have recourse through TA", that answer was provided, 'yes'. Why then did the OP not contact TA for recourse? Ya gotta wonder don't you think?

Now as it happens, I do not think my speculation above is correct. I think dwbf11 probably just wanted to have it be the hotel that removed his name from their response, as a matter of principle and to 'teach them a lesson' of a kind, rather than just take the easier route of simply having TA remove it. But my point is that anyone can speculate about anything, including why the name was posted in the first place which dwbf11 is still speculating about or whether the hotel was 'doxing' as proudelitist speculated. Sometimes it can be interesting to put the shoe 'on the other foot' and speculate from the opposite side as well. But if we speculate, we need to remember it is only speculation, not fact. Nor does having 10 others agree with a speculation make it fact.
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