I have posted my reasons for posting my thread "I think I have found my perfect RTW award trip" in the Star Alliance forum here (with some additional questions):

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum32/HTML/002434.html

Maybe this can add a little bit to the discussion in this thread here.

I think there is nothing wrong with this discussion since it is done in a respectful manner and on the issues instead of getting personal, and everyone agrees that Patron's work is highly appreciated. It definitely is by me .

ozstamps, out of your 12000 plus (!) posts so far only 18 (5 of which within this year)
were adressed to this forum .
don't you agree that just popping in to
"moderate our moderator" looks a bit like you
just want make some waves in order to attract attention ?

no hard feelings , though .

We have a winner, give the man in the corner his prize!

OH GEEEZ, despite the justifications indicated above, I just hit the *A Forum and there are SIX CLOSED THREADS starring me in the face on the first page alone!!! Give us a break!



[This message has been edited by tvl4free (edited 02-15-2003).]

sunseeker after 14 months here it is a shame you have not mastered the the VERY simple-to-use "search" function. Your 'facts' are totally WRONG by a few 100%.

I have made half as many posts in THIS Forum as you have made in your entire FT history. i.e. I have posted here a LOT more in this Forum than you have if that has any relevance to anything - which is does not IMO, but you did raise the matter.

Please CHECK your totally incorrect "facts" such as those above in future before posting them.

And if you REALLY want to find some joke posters to this thread in terms of their total past posts to this Forum go look up SMessier while you are checking my past posts. And his buddy ScottC is another. What is the German word for "ZERO"? Their alleged sudden interest in this forum is indeed curious. Very Monty-Pythonesque. Some folks on FT have telepathy I am convinced.

If you are obsessed with statistics please go check out how many threads are on the current Star forum non-archived data base, (a whopping 385) and then work out the % of those that have been closed in recent days.

It is a joke. That was the entire point of this thread. I appreciate Patron's explanation. He has the call we all know that and can close every thread he likes including this. Like tvl4free, and many others comments above I totally disagree they were necessary. We are all entitled to our opinions.

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[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited 02-15-2003).]

we have common ground here , the QUANTITY of post just mean nothing and what i meant wrer the topics (not posts, my mistake) that have been your contribution here .
so , just for the records, this is what you get when using the search engine by user "ozstamps" :

"Displaying Topics 1 - 18 (18 total)"

as the topics shown only date back into 2002 , it seems like most of your valuable input must rest somewhere in the archives .

however , still no hard feelings !

Was going to post something nasty about OZ but decided it wasn't worth it.

[This message has been edited by ScottC (edited 02-16-2003).]

A lot of quantity does not always mean there is any level of quality.

YMMV.

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A Star Alliance Member.

Dejavu??

Aaah I see. On the one hand one makes totally valueless smart-... and purely inflammatory posts like this, and on the other bleat and whine incessantly about NOT being selected to be a Moderator.

Perhaps one action neatly explains the reason for the other?

Moderators generally are required to EDIT such posts .... NOT originate them.

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[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited 02-16-2003).]

Again, thank you very much for your contribution.

Like sjharte & Chiangi said, at the end of the day we will see if the *A board stays attractive and therefore gets a lot of valued contribution. After a while, Randy and his crew can decide if it was worth establish moderation on the *A board at all or � more specifically - if I did more harm than good and he will replace me.

Looking at the number of your replies, this is a very hot topic on our forum. But looking at the content and the wording of the last posts, I tend to believe that the discussion has moved from the intention of the opener (�over-moderated board�).

This is the reason why I am closing this thread now. I really do hope that all of you play an active role in this generic forum and contribute extensively on topics like

� Comparison of the quality of different *A Carriers
� Comparison of the different *A FFPs & promotions
� *A products (eg RWSTAR, *A Circle Pacific fares, *A Airpasses)
� Travel benefits for *G & *S card holders (eg lounge access, baggage allowance, preferred seating, preferred boarding)
� Latest news of *A network (eg new members, destinations, routing)

Patron
*A Talk moderator