TalkBoard Topics - Proposal: Open a FT Community Director/SanDiego1K forum as successor to ORP forum

FT used to have an active forum called the Only Randy Petersen forum where the FT founder/community director would be engaged by and with FTers.

Since the change in management on FT, there is a new FT community director (namely, SanDiego1K). Perhaps it is now time for TB to propose such a forum, presuming the FT Community Director is amenable to such forum.

Your thoughts on this?

Perhaps it is now time for TB to propose such a forumuh, how can anyone but IB make that decision for SanDiego1K?

OTOH someone could start a (master) thread "Questions for SanDiego1K" and see what happens.

uh, how can anyone but IB make that decision for SanDiego1K?

ORP, for example, was initiated upon member request.

TB, as member representative body, can vote on creation of forums.

OTOH someone could start a (master) thread "Questions for SanDiego1K" and see what happens.

Where would that thread find its home on FT? ORP operated primarily without master threads.

TB, as member representative body, can vote on creation of forums.

It may be an empty forum without the Community Director posting. I thought she was pretty clear on her prior post.

Nope, despite some having come up with a great acronym, OCD, Only Community Director. Randy was special. He is iconic in the industry. He is the world expert on miles and points. He has television reporters follow him around. He is our own celebrity. Me? I'm good at organization, understand his ethos for flyertalk.com, and hope to keep the user experience a positive one. But I've got nothing interesting to say publicly in the ways that Randy did.

OTOH someone could start a (master) thread "Questions for SanDiego1K" and see what happens.

Or they can just send her a PM, which many members here have done, and be assured of a timely response and a direct answer to their question. She's invited members to contact her if they need to. She's always responded to me within a few hours.

It may be an empty forum without the Community Director posting. I thought she was pretty clear on her prior post.

Perhaps, but perhaps time comes with change or change comes with time.

any discussion of what SanDiego1K should or should not do seems very suspect from a TOS perspective...

again >
Perhaps it is now time for TB to propose such a forum
TB "proposal" = 2 TB
then TB "votes"
ORP, for example, was initiated upon member request. by Randy...

TB, as member representative body, can vote on creation of forums.
seriously?
Or they can just send her a PM

my point was one cannot create a forum, but can create a thread/post.

It's flattering that anyone would think my thoughts should have boardwide appeal. Thank you for the compliment. However, I will not be opening an OCD forum. Tom911 has found a quote of mine which continues to represent my thoughts.

Why did Randy have an ORP forum?


He is a world reknown expert on points and miles. He is on TV, in newspapers, in magazines, and gives talks at seminars. We wanted the chance to ask our celeb our own questions.
He travels actively, so while at the helm of FT, was often away.
He ran and runs a multiple of businesses. While we always thought we were his most loved, the reality is that he needed to support a lot of employees in his various business endeavours.
He received thousands of emails a week, well beyond any person's ability to respond. ORP gave folks a way to get issues in front of him.


None of those points are relevant to me. I do get a lot of emails, though nothing on the order of what he gets, but enough to be challenging to work thru. Regardless, I try very hard and get to a high percentage of them.

So thank you for the kind words, but I'm happy with today's structure.

Carol