I believe that feeling was reflected in the TalkBoard Topics thread concerning charitable contributions.

TalkBoard had made a change to the TOS and I wanted to know exactly what it meant. I gave a real-life example and asked at what point -- if any --it would be a TOS violation under the new rules.

The different TalkBoard members gave very different replies and I was told by Spiff that "Dovster, while those are both good questions, they are questions about moderation and not TalkBoard questions."

Well, no. If TalkBoard makes a decision to change the TOS, what it meant should not be a moderation question but rather a TalkBoard issue. That is the only way that a poster can be certain he is not violating the TOS. There can't be a situation where an identical post is a TOS violation on the AA Forum but not on the Delta Forum (or vice-versa).

Randy has made it clear that the TalkBoard is responsible for approving changes in the TOS. Moderators should have the job of enforcing those changes but only within the intent of what TalkBoard decided.

To take this to an admittedly extreme extent, let's take a look at the El Al Forum (which TalkBoard approved this year) and the proposed Alitalia Forum (which TalkBoard rejected).

It is clear that TalkBoard wanted a forum reserved for El Al and not one for Alitalia.

Would a moderator then have the right to ban all discussion of El Al on this forum and allow only Alitalia posts there?