Well I will probably get banned for this - but as a long time member and poster I have decided to speak my piece

I find the actions that have taken place this weekend ( and of course its on a weekend ) to be against the spirit of FT.

1. The deletion of fairly innocuous posts by the Talkboard President , with no warning or notification either before or after to the posters

2. The banning of an active candidate for Talkboard with one week to go to the elections. Whether I am in favor of this candidate or not is irrelevant to this discussion ( and for the record I will state that I did not vote for him). This board is still, to the best of my knowledge , hosted in the United States - can you imagine if Bush was able to shut up Kerry this week.

Moderators, who are not elected, seem to have been given way too much power to direct what the rest of Flyertalk is to see. The "rules", such as they may be, need to be posted for everyone to see - not left up to the interpretation of individuals.

Jan