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Wikiposts are easy to create and maintain, since any interested member with 90/90 can create (Thread tools menu) and contribute to or edit to one. No mods needed, no worries about obsolete FAQs with huge threads to ferret out what's current.
All this senior mod can say is "Go for it! Power to the posters!"
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(lower right wiki corner)Wikiposts are easy to create and maintain, since any interested member with 90/90 can create (Thread tools menu) and contribute to or edit to one. No mods needed, no worries about obsolete FAQs with huge threads to ferret out what's current.
All this senior mod can say is "Go for it! Power to the posters!"
I use the blue boilerplate when I create a wikipost because it gives basic detail and reminds members they can print out wikipost contents (to a PDF to save, if you have the software, or whatever).
Write on!
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Aug 28, 2014, 2:33 am
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But your first comment is only because we cannot comment on moderation due to TOS
. Otherwise I would be openly complaining that our out-of-date FAQ was unstickied
. Otherwise I would be openly complaining that our out-of-date FAQ was unstickied
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Aug 28, 2014, 3:21 am
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Not by me. The OP has/had a few ideas which Prospero offered to help with.
My point is someone willing to post informational threads and curate them doesn't need to be a mod. In other sections of FT its mostly the case that members who show interest to invest time and heartache into a forum are also picked/considered when a mod position opens up.
My point is someone willing to post informational threads and curate them doesn't need to be a mod. In other sections of FT its mostly the case that members who show interest to invest time and heartache into a forum are also picked/considered when a mod position opens up.
Aug 28, 2014, 6:05 am
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Aug 28, 2014, 6:12 am
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It's just a small, friendly Scandinavian site: http://www.businessclass.se/ (also in Danish as .dk and Norwegian as .no)
I learned so much from Flyertalk and flying around the world that I (and five other guys from this forum) just had to write about it in Swedish. My English is OK but I write better in my native language.
I learned so much from Flyertalk and flying around the world that I (and five other guys from this forum) just had to write about it in Swedish. My English is OK but I write better in my native language.
Aug 28, 2014, 6:23 am
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It's just a small, friendly Scandinavian site: http://www.businessclass.se/ (also in Danish as .dk and Norwegian as .no)
I learned so much from Flyertalk and flying around the world that I (and five other guys from this forum) just had to write about it in Swedish. My English is OK but I write better in my native language.
I learned so much from Flyertalk and flying around the world that I (and five other guys from this forum) just had to write about it in Swedish. My English is OK but I write better in my native language.
Aug 28, 2014, 6:55 am
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Do you follow Swedish? Or Google Translate?
Aug 28, 2014, 7:50 am
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A travel deal is a deal in any language that involves a convertible currency or redeemable points/miles.
I can usually make out a bit in a few languages without translation technology or "personnel" a/k/a relatives in some matters. But without those aides, it's mostly only enough to make a fool of myself. That said, I've mostly used businessclass.se without Google Translate. Between Google and watching too much subtitled TV in Sweden, eventually enough makes sense to make sense of Swedish-language travel deals and some other Swedish stuff.
I spent last night laughing at the Skanepartiet campaign literature and needed no help there. It's rare that I find such outlandish campaign literature in the US, but then again reading separatist fantasies is probably amusing in a lot of places. No translation needed, although I still laugh at the word for immigrant looking like the word for invader in English.
I can usually make out a bit in a few languages without translation technology or "personnel" a/k/a relatives in some matters. But without those aides, it's mostly only enough to make a fool of myself. That said, I've mostly used businessclass.se without Google Translate. Between Google and watching too much subtitled TV in Sweden, eventually enough makes sense to make sense of Swedish-language travel deals and some other Swedish stuff.
I spent last night laughing at the Skanepartiet campaign literature and needed no help there. It's rare that I find such outlandish campaign literature in the US, but then again reading separatist fantasies is probably amusing in a lot of places.
No translation needed, although I still laugh at the word for immigrant looking like the word for invader in English.
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Aug 28, 2014, 11:40 am
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I spent last night laughing at the Skanepartiet campaign literature and needed no help there. It's rare that I find such outlandish campaign literature in the US, but then again reading separatist fantasies is probably amusing in a lot of places.
No translation needed, although I still laugh at the word for immigrant looking like the word for invader in English.I think "invader" has common roots with invandrare (SE) or Einwanderer (DE), just add the negative connotation
Aug 28, 2014, 1:14 pm
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Yes, they are quite weird... not sure if I should lough or cry reading their letters... especially since technically I'm also 'invandrare', at least neither poor nor muslim so they might let me live
I think "invader" has common roots with invandrare (SE) or Einwanderer (DE), just add the negative connotation
I think "invader" has common roots with invandrare (SE) or Einwanderer (DE), just add the negative connotation
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Aug 28, 2014, 7:31 pm
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Aug 28, 2014, 10:56 pm
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It seem that starting a thread about moderation has brought the gaze of Sauron upon us
. Who do we call when we are overrun by senior mods?
Aug 29, 2014, 12:53 am
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The post nominated for deletion actually references another that compares this senior moderated forum to another, and since this has grown into a totally unofficial lounge like thread with convo about various non-airline forum issues, we'll leave it all. For now. Or not.