Originally Posted by
Randy Petersen
It would seem that we disagree then. My point-of-view is that the role of an individual as a member of FlyerTalk and its goals should be held apart from the role that person has outside of FlyerTalk. If your line of thinking was the standard, then it would seem to be reason that all anyone would ever have to do is create a registration wherever opinion is allowed and become exempt from those responsibilities.
I may however, be misunderstanding your point. The TOS as I understand it is for regulation of FlyerTalk members and their particular participation on FlyerTalk. I think i do however understand what you mean by a double-standard. I really see it not as a double-standard, but rather the separation of two or more parts of a persons being.
But please feel free to correct me if i am not fully understanding your point.
Though this specific issue does fall into it, my issue with the TOS is from a more broad view. Specifically, I've always had trouble with the fact that attacks upon certain groups (of which many FTers may or may not fall into) are okay, and others are not, depending upon which way the PC or other winds are blowing. For example, "TSA employees are idiots" is acceptable, even though it is a direct attack on any FTer who happens to be employed by that agency. In fact, a certain portion of FT is devoted to that mindset as a whole, where even the moderators of that forum will participate in those sorts of attacks.
Let's say that I were to go to OMNI, though, and throw out a hypothetical "gays are evil" post. I'd be likely leveled with a ban that is so quick, I didn't know what hit me -- even though I specifically named no names of FTers.
That, Randy, is the double standard that has always been, in my opinion, laughable. And the way I see it, this is really no different. Either FT needs to address attacks of all types, or ignore them. It shouldn't pick and choose which types are okay and which aren't, but I figured out a long, long time ago that I'm probably the only person who believes that.
Mike