Maybe you could volunteer to do this job if it's so important to you, especially since no one else is going to waste their valuable time on such a silly venture. :rolleyes:

So, you're the guy I always meet on a flight who doesn't believe I'm Dick Cheney. :D

Unfortunately I don't think there is any appropriate way to verify identity, employment, etc. It is too difficult and too intrusive.

Besides, what do you use as standards? I have consistently stated, for several years, that you are not a "frequent flyer" unless you have done at least 300k BIS in a single year. But not everyone agrees. And that is one of the most important qualifications for people on this board.

I beg to differ. AFAIK, the only qualification for people on this board is a body temperature above freezing.

Posthumus posting is not allowed?

Does being brain dead count?

Same comment as mine; different words.

Not only are the words different, but the meanings are different as well - a person who is brain dead is not clinically dead and is also not likely legally dead. (That's neither here nor there, though.)

Mike

I don't think FT should be in the business of verifying that people are who they claim to be. Eventually, over time, we figure out that people are fakers or don't know what they're talking about.

I am now Hillary Clinton for this week. :D

Hi, Hillary. Welcome to Flyertalk.

can I suggest that you resign before impeachment? :D

A beating heart or a brainwave that curves more than the Gulf of Mexico in July doesn't seem to be a requirement either.

Only after I'm caught with a male intern in a compromising position. A girl needs t get even you know.

I strongly agree. Some months ago, a relatively new FTer claimed to have been arrested on a specific day at a specific airport due simply to arguing with TSA. I found that very dubious, and checked online and through a quick public records request. There were no records of the incident, and there would have been had the claim been true. After I confronted this person in the threads, this FTer suddenly got very quiet and disappeared completely within a couple of weeks.

No doubt there will be FTers falsely claiming credentials, but more than likely they will slip up and be caught by someone who is really put off by such dishonesty. True, someone might be very clever and never be caught, but that's not exactly a FT crisis, is it?