Well if you are gonna call a spade a spade then let's call this forum what it is - a forum where, in this case, complaints can be made and discussed, debated, and so forth. To say that myself, phx, or anyone else who carries the "symphathizer label" be banned altogether, well isn't that a form of censorship? You're basically telling the mods, aadfw, that because we disagree with some of the complaints we shouldn't be here. And that in and of itself is simply wrong. I mean if you don't like the fact that we speak "in favor" of the airlines, you can also follow your own words and simply walk away.
What Country did, well I don't agree with it; I don't think anyone does. But it's taken care of, we move on. The mods will weed out anyone else using multiple accounts. AADFW if you want this site to be a "soapbox" as you put it for those who feel they have been wronged by the airlines, then simply push for the mods to remove the reply feature altogether. Ok so you ban all the "sympathizers" and we actually go away... How hard is it for someone else to step in and speak in favor of the airlines? (unlike country, i'm talkin new blood). It's an "open forum", open and shut. Do I agree with a lot of the posts? no. A lot of them are simply ridiculous, that's not being pro-airline, that's just common sense, something that I am a strong advocate for, something in which this country lacks. We seem to believe that if anything goes wrong in our lives, especially when it concerns the airlines, we find a way to place blame on anyone BUT ourselves. I'm not talkin about misconnections or being stranded elsewhere, I'm not talking overbooking, I'm talkin when someone is clearly late for their flight, they come here and look for sympathy. Ok post your complaint, that's fine, but in the end if your wrong your wrong. If the airlines are clearly in the wrong then i totally agree they need to make amends. But if you, the person who is making the complaints, is in the wrong, then just accept it.
These are not the words of a man who sits behind a computer only tap out rebuttal after rebuttal over a complaint, this is coming from a guy who literally travels almost weekly and sees not just how agents act towards my fellow travelers, but also how my fellow travelers act towards agents.
Oh and as far as I know, no one really cares about the "sympathizer" label. Unless of course they complained to the mods in private, I can't speak of that. I just know that openly in the forums no one has questioned the label. Well someone did, but only to ask why we have it. But in the end, no one cares about it. But basically if you're gonna have an open forum, your opening yourself up to the possibility that yea, your gonna get airline employees who will defend their jobs, and of course you'll get frequent travelers such as myself who speaks of what they know. Why is that such a bad thing? It doesn't make it wrong and it doesn't make the person who is complaining any more right. So we agree, to disagree.
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