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#1006
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#1009
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#1013
Join Date: Jul 2006
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At the same time other CC sellers are mocked
https://twitter.com/garyleff/status/1155573737342808064
https://twitter.com/garyleff/status/1155573737342808064
#1014
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The clickbait continues of course, today with "Global Entry is Becoming Tougher to Get - And Being Revoked"
The actual content is:
- Nothing about GE criteria becoming more stringent, as the headline implies, but about the lengthy wait times currently being experienced for processing the initial applications. So - not tougher to get, just taking longer. Which sucks of course, but not the scare that the headline contains.
- A "reminder" - link to a prior VFTW post - of things that can cause one's GE to be revoked (failure to declare declarable items, criminal convictions, etc); not the implication from the headline that GEs are somehow being suddenly revoked for some totally new reason or whatever.
Both of the above are good pieces of info to be aware of - there really wasn't any need for the click-bait, but I guess when you're in the habit...
The actual content is:
- Nothing about GE criteria becoming more stringent, as the headline implies, but about the lengthy wait times currently being experienced for processing the initial applications. So - not tougher to get, just taking longer. Which sucks of course, but not the scare that the headline contains.
- A "reminder" - link to a prior VFTW post - of things that can cause one's GE to be revoked (failure to declare declarable items, criminal convictions, etc); not the implication from the headline that GEs are somehow being suddenly revoked for some totally new reason or whatever.
Both of the above are good pieces of info to be aware of - there really wasn't any need for the click-bait, but I guess when you're in the habit...
#1015
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Yeah - that post was pretty bad. The signal to noise ratio here is getting incredibly low.
I really can't think of the last time I saw a useful post on this site.
I'm sure Gary's laughing all the way to the bank, but that's fine too.
I really can't think of the last time I saw a useful post on this site.
I'm sure Gary's laughing all the way to the bank, but that's fine too.
#1016
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Does VFTW now block non-spam blog comments? I tried responding to a blog entry but my comment wouldnt show up after submitting the comment; and so I tried twice more and they still didnt show up. Maybe they will show up after a manual review?
#1017
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What is interesting is that VFTW seems to at times disappear entire blog articles along with all the comments to the blog articles. This is the second time Ive seen this done on the VFTW blog within less than a year. Why does VFTW delete blog articles?
#1018
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They showed up eventually.
What is interesting is that VFTW seems to at times disappear entire blog articles along with all the comments to the blog articles. This is the second time Ive seen this done on the VFTW blog within less than a year. Why does VFTW delete blog articles?
What is interesting is that VFTW seems to at times disappear entire blog articles along with all the comments to the blog articles. This is the second time Ive seen this done on the VFTW blog within less than a year. Why does VFTW delete blog articles?
I suspect he's not deleting posts, but rather hiding or 'unpublishing' them. Maybe to work on updating them? Or to shelve them until he has time to?
We could ask him, but he doesn't post on FlyerTalk anymore (although he does read this thread).
#1019
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They showed up eventually.
What is interesting is that VFTW seems to at times disappear entire blog articles along with all the comments to the blog articles. This is the second time Ive seen this done on the VFTW blog within less than a year. Why does VFTW delete blog articles?
What is interesting is that VFTW seems to at times disappear entire blog articles along with all the comments to the blog articles. This is the second time Ive seen this done on the VFTW blog within less than a year. Why does VFTW delete blog articles?
#1020
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I don't recall the specifics offhand, but there were a couple of instances where VFTW posted about something...then some other bloggers posted about it as well. Then it ended up the information was shown to be wrong. I noticed that other bloggers updated their original post with a correction. Yet the original post from VFTW simply disappeared.
VFTW more recently did this disappearing act with a blog article about the British families who drove across a ditch separating Canada from the US and ended up in trouble with CBP/ICE because of it.