jfe

ORP used to be infamous when people with fake ids would post something in the weekend, ORP was unmoderated and we would have no tools to ban the user or to remove the thread/post in question.

Thank God that has changed

What has not changed is the childish behavior some of the regular members continue to show time after time.

Myself included

To answer the original question, it's because those are the rules that this board has.

I think that any rule can be deviated for it's validity, and in the case that started this avalanche, if the AC forum is unique enough, from all the other forums, then an exception could be made.

Maybe it's its unique nature of giving the certificates away that differentiates it, and such an altruistic reason could justify it having a unique set of rules.

Then again, I had to ban users that have posted in the AC forum, thanks to people sending me PMs alerting me from duplicate/previously banned users, but if all transactions took place in the CC we would avoid some of those headaches thanks to the 100 post minimum. It makes housekeeping a whole lot easier, and in most cases, it just makes good old common sense.

No need to let good certificates to go to waste.

My 2¢

FlyerTalk

As noted in the other thread which seems similar to this - it might make a whole lot of sense for the orginator of these threads to wait until Randy returns to answer. Debating among members does seem counter-productive considering the value of the information on FT available to all members in the various forums. I'll close this thread so that it allows Randy to focus on the question rather than the posting practices of some of the members of FT. Hope this makes logocal sense to some of you.