Originally Posted by senor_jefe
I think people are wondering why there was proactive moderation of a seeming harmless long standing practice (trading certs), but no action taken against something clearly against the TOS.
Actually, I tihnk some action was taken if you're referring to the quote I think you are. As mentioned earlier, it was edited out. A quote of the quote was edited out. The thread where it and other unpleasantries were was closed with a request that members not engage in such things.
As far as any other discussions with individual members and whether some folks here think that other folks deserve timeouts, those kinds of things are private between moderators and individual members so I will not comment on specific cases here.
While there is near universal agreement that the AC forum does not want moderation (and wants to keep the cert trading in house), if we are having it forced upon us, we would like it to be as even as possible.
Again, I think there was action taken.
But speaking only for myself, I don't read through every reply in the Air Canada forum. I am not applying to Randy to serve as moderator of that forum. So I'm not looking to police all of the threads there. So please don't assume that because action hasn't been taken in a thread or with a post that there's tacit acceptance that any particular post is 'okay'.
One member yesterday emailed me wanting to know why a particular comment was allowed to stand for a couple of hours. The truth is that I hadn't seen it yet. Then a member used the report-a-post function and that drew my attention.
When members have concerns they're welcome to use the report-a-post function, it's really quite useful. When there's a real "fire" that folks believe needs attention, that's the way to grab it. But there isn't oging to be a sleuth of proactive moderation in the forum to the extent that there isn't anyone assigned there full-time.
I hope that's not too unsatisfying of an answer.
Best,
Gary