straitman said:
I do however find it incongruous that the spleen vent has been posted by someone who comes up with gems such as
1. “Greetings from the MEL T1 QP, btw. The chardonnay is excellent tonight.”
2. “Did someone say 'bus'? Someone did, but I think they got away with it....”
3. “Is the Untied States the same as the United States? ”
4. LOTFAP - Land Of The Free And Paranoid (sometimes referred to as the Untied States)
5. POT USA - President Of The Untied States of America (perhaps the cannabis use explains some of his decisions)....
and many more.
As the saying goes: people in glass houses etc…….
Agreed - but looking at when I said what I said, those quotes were entirely within the context of what was being discussed at the time, so were not totally inappropriate. As a long-time denizen of the QF board on FlyerTalk, I am not averse to going off-topic from time-to-time.
It just seems to me that the "[Insert a nick] gets to [Insert a number] post" trend has got a little bit out of hand, and detracts from the main purpose of this board, which is, as I said, to maximise benefits, minimise inconveniences and reduce the stress and strain of being road warriors.
Having said that, the above comments you quoted, IN THE CONTEXT of when I said them, were entirely appropriate at the time.
Personally I find that getting up before 6am for work and then getting home from work again around 6pm, that a bit of light hearted humour on a friendly forum is great however maybe it’s time we ALL put some perspective back into the forum!
I know where you are coming from. A little bit of light humour does not go astray. But we need to establish where it becomes relevant, and then there is the issue of post-padding. (We had a similar discussion on FlyerTalk a while back). A certain amount of credibility exists because of somebody's post counts. But continued postings to "rubbish" threads will add to a posters count without adding to their credibility - and a newbie will have no way of knowing this.
I would venture that I have more credibility than JohnK (due to the fact that I have worked for Qantas, and in retail traveller, and fly very often, enough to be a Gold FF, but not up there with Dave Noble, Lindsay and NM, who are Platinum, but still a hell of a lot), yet his post-count is higher than mine (due to his post-padding activities).
The threads about "Who is going to get to the next level" and so on just add to this spread of dis-information amongst new-comers to the board.
Apologies Dave… just my humble thoughts.
Always welcome, it is always a good thing tohave someone approach waht you are saying from a different POV. It makes you look at things differently and re-evaluate, which I have done. Sometimes re-evaluation makes you even firmer in your opinion (as in this case).
Dave