Taking a break from Moderating
Feb 19, 2012, 2:32 am
#31
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: London, UK / (TLV), Israel
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Swanhunter - Unwavering service you've always provided to FT - hope to see you back here soon.
Best wishes to your family member.
Best wishes to your family member.
Feb 19, 2012, 5:01 am
#36
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club, Iberia Airlines, Airport Lounges and Environmentally Friendly Travel
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: London, UK
Posts: 22,212
Swanhunter, it has been an enormous pleasure working with you. I owe you a debt of gratitude for the time, wisdom and level headedness you have imparted. I'm going to miss not having you around. Haste ye back, my friend but only when the time is right for you.
Best wishes to you and your family.
PS. for those who don't know, the BA Trip Report competition is dear to Swanhunter's heart and he had plans to kick this off last month, but life just got in the way of this. So in his honour, I launched the http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...mpetition.html thread today.
Best wishes to you and your family.
PS. for those who don't know, the BA Trip Report competition is dear to Swanhunter's heart and he had plans to kick this off last month, but life just got in the way of this. So in his honour, I launched the http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...mpetition.html thread today.
Feb 19, 2012, 5:19 am
#37
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Manila, Philippines (MNL)
Programs: BAEC Gold [>20k Lifetime TPs] | Hilton Honors Lifetime Diamond [as is Mrs PtF] | Various Others
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Swanhunter - may I please add my own best wishes and expression of gratitude to you? I have witnessed at first hand many occasions where your Mod skills have been sorely tested - the fact that the BAEC forum continues to survive is a testament not only to you, but to the other Mods who unselfishly give up so much of their time to keep the rest of us under control.
Those of us who have ever been the recipient of one of your PMs know your real name - but we shall continue to remember you as Swanhunter. ^
Those of us who have ever been the recipient of one of your PMs know your real name - but we shall continue to remember you as Swanhunter. ^
Feb 19, 2012, 5:44 am
#39
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: London
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Swanhunter, all the best my friend and you are in fact 100% right in your decision. Next time I am in London, we will calm our nerves with a wee dram. Or ten.
The BA Asylum will be fine while you are on leave. The inmates will be here when you get back. I am more than happy to drop in from time to time to help calm things down...
My very best wishes for your family member...
The BA Asylum will be fine while you are on leave. The inmates will be here when you get back. I am more than happy to drop in from time to time to help calm things down...
My very best wishes for your family member...
However, as a shareholder in your employer I often wondered how you managed to fit in the amount of work you did on here, a job, and the minor things in life like eating and sleeping! I hope that you feel able to come back to the "Asylum" more permanently when time permits and that you pop in now and again in the meantime.
Until then, thanks for all your hard work on FT - it has certainly made it a better place.
Feb 19, 2012, 5:49 am
#40
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Join Date: May 2005
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All the best Swanhunter, sorry to hear about your family member and I do hope they make a full recovery.
hope to see you back here in full mod capacity very soon!
hope to see you back here in full mod capacity very soon!
Last edited by clubman; Feb 19, 2012 at 5:55 am
Feb 19, 2012, 6:18 am
#41
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All the best Swanhunter, and thank you for your significant contribution to the forum over the past few years. :-:
Feb 19, 2012, 11:50 am
#44
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Thanks for all your moderating Swanhunter.
Sometimes I have disagreed with your decisions but we muddle through in the end and it is in no small part down to you and the other mods that we have a thriving community here on the BA board.
Sometimes I have disagreed with your decisions but we muddle through in the end and it is in no small part down to you and the other mods that we have a thriving community here on the BA board.
Feb 19, 2012, 11:51 am
#45
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Or put another way, the busier you are the more you achieve.
