Not to offend anyone, but why is a thread like this:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...ferrerid=26934 not allowed on the community forum, when a thread such as this:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...ferrerid=26934 goes on and on and on?
In the first thread, a first-time poster is looking to tap into this community's thoughts for a travel-related school project but the person is pretty much told to go away because the topic is "not appropriate."
The second thread -- astounding at over 2K pages of 30K posts -- is simply some silly game that's about nothing but putting up someone's name. The person who closed the first thread kindly reminded the OP that Community is an "area is reserved for proposing get-togethers, the wishing of happy birthdays and the occasional community humor." I agree with keeping messages on focus (I surely have benefitted from this forum and all our DC get-togethers) but I don’t see how the second thread falls into any of those categories. While IMHO it's a stretch to say that game thread falls under "humor," given the high number of posts I'm sure for some people here the game is quite fun (clearly I'm not one of them, as just reading the first and last pages it seemed like a huge waste of time!
). But in that same way that the game post is considered fun for some FTers, likewise for some of us it might have been fun to see the responses that other thread (the school project) would have generated. In fact, that thread had the potential to give us insights into this community, in the same way that the "Who we all are" thread does.
I'm not contesting the moderator's decision on this, just trying to understand why it was just flat-out closed. I can understand if it'd been moved somewhere ("Travel Buzz," maybe, where there are currently other polls taking place?) but to just close it altogher is a disappointment and a poor way to "welcome" someone here -- especially since we're saying their post doesn't add anything to this site, yet some game is allowed all the bandwith it's willing to take. If I were that person, I'd think "Sheesh, people on a travel board don't want to talk about travel because they'd rather play some name game."
Please understand I mean no offense to the folks partaking in the game, just as I'm not nitpicking, incinting anything, or taking sides… I'm just really curious as to the logic. Thanks for this board and the opportunity for open discussion.
Have a good weekend!
PS - For what it's worth, I never posted on OMNI but from what I read there (and in subsequent threads about it), I'm glad it went away since it didn't seem to be adding much to the site but rather draining the moderators' time.
ETA: I really hope we get some good answers and not bashing and arguments. Also note that I'm going out of town in a few minutes for a long weekend so if there's any discussion, I won't be responding until Wednesday, so I'm not ignoring you. Thanks.