[Butch Cassidy Slept Here]

Sinbad: I’m glad to see someone on here who is not an addition to that 66% of this board who, either blindly, or better than 50% of the time, supports anti-customer (US-based) airline behavior. Having said that it’s important to remember the remaining 33% is significantly “outnumbered.” Put another way, we (the 33%) are fighting with one hand tied behind our back. For the foreseeable future the “other side” will ALWAYS get the last word in---whether it’s by hitting the “report” button (for bogus reasons, or otherwise) or just by “mobbing” a “pro-customer” poster.

Given this state of affairs it’s sometimes necessary to take a strategic retreat and ignore the statements from those who no longer have the airport police at their beck and call and just plain wise a** and drunken comments.

In an ideal world there would be, at least, three posters on this board who would be booted-off. But that’s not going to happen. That’s not to say we need to run-up the white “surrender” flag. I think my posts certainly reflect the latter view. However we, on the “pro-customer” side, need to be aware the other side is relentlessly looking for “openings” in which they can turn our own swords against us. Thus our posts should be so guided.

Stand-by for “return fire” from the “other side.”

[The_Judge]

Sinbad, I see the account you created was done so on Oct 17, 2009. Unless you have read previous posts where posters have been banned for much less than what you've done, please don't call it whining to the mod. The mod, in fact, has encouraged the members to bring attention to posts just like yours. I have done so with you in private with the admin and also in public in this thread. I see another member has also contacted a mod about your behavior.

Clearly, with the lack of action by the mod, it is not a level playing field. It would seem (but I could be wrong) that non-airline employees and non-airline sympathyzers have freedom of speech. I sincerely hope that we can be enlightened if the rules have been relaxed on personal attacks.