Bryan: I would be willing to help review your proposal. I would also be willing to work with a group to come up with a FAQ answering some of the questions Doc poses.

Doc: I would be glad to discuss some of the questions you raise off line, but you don't have an e-mail address in your profile. If you're interested, please e-mail me privately.

... just neglect the trolls and don't feed them ... (I learned that 'lesson' months ago). Let them, and their posters die in the hyper-space-desert.

I, for sure, would never want to become any kind of 'official' monitor - God bless the one getting such a 'job'.

As general rules, the 10 commandements (and some Flyertalk-specific explanations under faq may be) or the basic rules of any other culture/religion should do it.

I will probably never understand, why, for the 10-commandements, 2 stones (or one piece of paper) is sufficient - but for the rules of mails and emails we should/would need books ...

(originally I posted ONE stone - and was proven wrong, see the next two postings ... http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif )


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Rudi: There were two stone tablets. But, according to Mel Brooks, originally there were three - - -

"I have here fifteen [crash], ..er.. ten commandments" - - History of the World, Part I http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Rudi, the staute law of most countries I've visited is considerably longer than two tablets of stone! http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

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yes - TWO http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Realizing that all the Webflyer folks are busy with other important matters and that this is not the most urgent concern, I'd just like to reiterate that I feel some posted rules/guidelines, right up front, would be useful.

Recently some FT's were chastised for soliciting referrals in various point incentive programs. I don't think it's necessarily the right thing to do personally and I have refrained from posting a current offer, but I'm not certain as to what, if any, official view FT has of this practice?

Today, in the "coupon connection" a request was made to have someone kindly purchase their tickets for them to Sydney, in exchange for a percentage of their future profits. Why not have a simple statement which disallows such solicitations if they are in fact forbidden?

Again, perhaps "common sense" addresses many of FT's collective concerns and they are self explanatory. Yet, while it may not be a very popular view, some brief rules would serve us all well and help avoid future difficulties, IMHO.

Thanks again for considering this request.

Regards,
Mark

Perhaps the ten commandments and the basic rules of any culture/religion are not enough Rudi.

I've witnessed various personal assaults/flaming and been assaulted/flamed myself in current FT threads. Believe me, I can take it! Yet the question remains, is there a policy or any intention to develop any policy regarding such matters- or is it going to become a free for all with every FT'er for themself?

Are we all to undertake multiple attack handles? I believe a clear policy is fast becoming more essential because some interpret a lack of response as tacit approval from the hosts. This is a serious impediment to the continued growth of FT as well as to the present sense of harmony/tolerance/community.

Five months later...

Re-posted from 2/3/00

Now that the upgrade is complete, and the cookies are working again in Netscape (thank you, FT team!), I'd like to ask the question again.

Can you please re-consider the "delete post" issue?

How about...

Posts can be deleted by the user ONLY if the post being deleted is not the initial one that starts a thread.

Does anyone have a problem with that??

Shadow - I believe the problem is that UBB is set up as an "all or nothing" system. You can set it so that a user can delete any of their own posts, including the first one in a thread (which deletes the whole thread). Or you set it so that no posts can be deleted. i.e. although your suggestion is very sensible, it isn't (wasn't) technically possible.

If shadow's suggestion is possible to implement, I agree completely. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Ten months later. Anything new? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

How about this? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum94/HTML/001926.html

Yes doc it has been 10 months hasn't it. I believe this question has been addressed several times in that ten months.

We tried allowing this option at several points in the developement of the FlyerTalk community and the difficulties far outweighed the rewards. The consensus that we arrived at in house is that when you create a thread and invite feedback from the remainder of the community the information becomes public domain and therefore no longer belongs to one individual.

We however reserve the right to close or delete a thread as we see fit. We try very hard to exercise this responsibility cautiously. I've been the administrator of this board since it's inception several years ago and have very rarely had to delete any post other than duplicates that I've been specifically asked to remove.

The short answer is that I don't believe this is an option that we will reconsider anytime soon. I hope this doesn't dampen your enthusiasm for participating in our community. We love having you and appreciate your feedback.

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ThanX...
Michael at WebFlyer



[This message has been edited by Michael at WebFlyer (edited 07-12-2000).]

Thanks Michael. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif