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Just followed the path of this. A first time poster asks a sensible airline Elite question in Community, and correctly it gets moved to the applicable airline Forum.

Where it promptly gets closed down.

I can see it has already been touched on a day earlier by a thread with a totally non-specific title to the matter involved.

The thread locked down actually had a pertinent thread heading to the matter involved. One wonders how the first time poster felt? The conventional method for a poster to gently cross reference the other thread (as was done) and let it be surely seems to be prudent?

At no time was this new poster welcomed to FT, which I guess made the debut here even less warm.

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~ Glen ~

Come and visit the most ** FRIENDLY FORUM ** on FlyerTalk. No flame wars, no personal abuse, no substance abuse. Not much of anything really!

I'm going to agree. There are now TOO many moderators who feel that their new moderator status means they need to always do some sort of threat manipulation lest they risk not being a "good" moderator.

They're too zealous, and in most situations, a thread will be ignored if is redundant.

I think the moderators need some civility training.

I think some members need civility training too...

Let's not forget that the moderators are almost all new, it's a learning process and if the feedback is brought in a nice and friendly manner then they and eventually WE can all profit from it. Of course things will go wrong, I can remember the comments back a year ago when the first moderators joined, it was dreadful, and that turned out to be unfounded criticism.

Give it some time and I'm sure the new moderation tactics will be in FT's best interests.

I just read the thread in question and fail to see any serious problem, the moderator in the Delta board even took the time to post a link to the correct thread. Yes, the title to the other thread is not clear but I fail to see how that is a moderator issue.

As for the new user not feeling good about it, FT clearly has an introduction and if people take the time to read either that or to read the various boards on FT then he/she might have posted it in the correct board in the first place.

IMHO of course.

Glen, let he who is without sin caste the first stone.

It is all my personal responsibility. I had always ex[ected it would take a little time for any volunteer - just like in real life and those that volunteer for charity, etc. - to get to feel what it is like to help FlyerTalk. Yes, there will be a few of these instances and we can remedy them and learn from them. However, I find the distrations that select members make on FT - or try to - far more damaging than what has been mentioned here. The other item at play here is that these types of changes are coming from the membership - this is how they see things - not Randy Petersen - and it may show cause as to how some members are out of touch with community standards, not just mine.

anyway - far more philosophical than needs to be. Please have a little patience and remember - don't blame any moderators actions - drop off the blame here on my doorstep so i can review and lean from it and get back to posting.

Thanks for your understanding, i'm sure we all can remember our first shot at being responsible.....it more often than not wasn't pretty but we did (well, most of us anyway) get better.