I'm troubled by the following from Randy:

"We only selected a small number of FTers and it was our luck that most of you had nothing else to do"

I think thats a bunch of BS.
Only selected a small number? You invited everyone that was registered? You didnt do any selection at all. So how can you say you selected a small number of FTers? This sounds like and out and out lie.

Personally, I'm very disappointed at the handling of this. We basically were asked a few survey questions? Why couldn't everyone been emailed those questions?
Why did it take so long for an offical posting on FT explaining all of this?

Why couldn'ty Randy post of FT before logging on as Ranflyer? Ceratinly this would have been proof of identity. Considering many people questioned whether it was Randy, the absense of such proof only added to the confusion. Instead we were left to day of festering with regard to the chat, flyertalk and what was happening. This certainly was not good for Flyertalk. It also seemed to bring to the surface the old-timer vs. newbie issue(I'll leave that debate to others).

Certainly, at a minimum, Randy could have posted an explanation immediately after the chat to flyertalk, I think the 140 or so flyertalkers who braved the chat experience deserved at least that. At least we could have gone to sleep knowing that it was a technical glitch.

I for one received phone calls from 2 flyertalkers during the chat, wondering what was happening.

Frankly, I think we deserved a little more respect. We certianly should have been given more information then we received, and been given it in a more timely manner.