Which one borrowed the Hyatt points? That's pathetic.

Family members share and borrow points rather frequently. I don't find anything inherently pathetic about people using the resources available to them to try to make something more out of it.

Sorry Oliver, sometimes the truth hurts...

What is this? I mean, seriously, what is this?

http://jetsettingben.boardingarea.co...o-much-easier/

I counted so many errors in grammar, punctuation, and syntax in the first several lines of this poorly conceived word salad that my eyes just glazed over.

The Northern California is the most nice of places to visit. There are flights on many multiple airlines. There is an airport called Oakland, and also one called San Francisco. I am major expert because I read things on Wikipedia. Randy is most kind man to allow me to join web blogger community. Did you know you can earn 20,000 miles by getting credit card?

He had a decent subject for a short post, but definitely needs to spend more time proofreading. Kinda hard to even follow.

:D

btw just happened to notice on his "about" page:

http://jetsettingben.wpengine.com/about-me/

I didn't realize that FFS retained copyright ownership of any of the BA or P2B hosted blogs' content? Or does it vary depending on the blog?

but i thought Boarding Area is "just a platform" and can't be held responsible for pushing dreck on the masses, or imposing any minimal standards of professionalism on its writers ??

Me, neither. That's somewhat surprising to me.


Definitely. This is actually the only one I've heard of that does such.

I can think of a few reasons it is done this way, but they're all a stretch IMO.

FWIW, the site has been updated to remove the reference. Seems it was never supposed to be there in the first place. Chalk it up to the blogger screwing up, not a massive conspiracy.

Don't be s blogger basher angry!

Bloggers never screw up!!!!!!

Does it seem credible to you that that blogger would have come up with that language on his own? Seems like there must be more to the story. Further confirmation that Randy is reading this thread, though.

Yes.

I have no idea if Randy is reading the thread or not. I do know that this update was not triggered by him reading it, though.

Well then clearly not a coincidence that it happened after posts on this, and you clearly have more information.

I still find it unfathomable that if was a simple mistake by a blogger who has shown that his syntactical skills are close to nil. Not saying it's a "conspiracy", but the arrangements between BA and individual bloggers are hardly a model of transparency (a general problem as to many of the financial products salesmen featured on BA who deceptively market their sales as expert, disinterested advice).

At best, it shows a massive misunderstanding between a corporate entity and one of its "content providers", which doesn't speak highly of anyone involved. Given how two-faced BA has been in response to criticism ("We have no responsibility or control over the content of the blogs we promote and make money off of! Of course we don't tolerate plagiarism how dare you suggest we sit idly by and allow it!"), hardly surprising BA wouldn't be transparent with some of the unsophisticated, not particularly knowledgeable people it has been collecting to generate revenue while flooding what used to be a community with garbage, cheapening the value of high quality writing like your own. "

ALL he bloggers read this forum. Only few have the guts to post.

Kudos to them. ^

If someone can provide a list of BA bloggers who lost their credit card DOT com links in the past few days...that would be great :-)