Head for Points seems to have deleted some posts following their puff-piece today extolling the virtues of a trip to Tel Aviv with Virgin. A comment from a staff member reminds people that their forum is not the place for political commentary, yet no political comments appear. Some people might regard the publication of their original article as quite political of itself. I said as much in response to the staff member, and had my post deleted.
This seems to be at odds with the claim from HfP earlier in this thread that they don't censor.
I didn't see anything remotely political about the article itself. It was just a trip report.
Originally Posted by
riku2
I think there are some words which you cannot use in your comments on their site, if you do your comment just will not appear - mainly mention of things that might impact the revenue from referrals from the HfP site. I noticed somebody added a comment today about a BA offer that was not mentioned on the HfP site and even mentioned they expected their post to be deleted (and had to put hyphens in a word to stop it being blocked a-u-t-o-m-a-t-i-c-a-l-l-y). Looking a few hours later the comment is gone. The post did not criticize HfP or mention any other poster or person, but the post is gone now.
Censoring comments that point out better offers than the site's affiliate link is more of a concern than blotting out politics, off topic, etc.