GRALISTAIR

I love it!! ^

StartinSanDiego

Great! Congrats to all new members and a big "thank you" to those who are departing.

skchin

There should be an independent commitee formed to investigate possible election fraud.

cactuspete

Not at all surprising, however.

ysolde

Congratulations to all who were elected/re-elected!

Wishing you all the best as you take on this task.

ozstamps

Markie Forget about them being asleep LAST year - I only noticed today that Talkboard has not voted on a single motion for SIX MONTHS, and that is a sad indictment in my view too.

I made the proposed motion today, that I hope gets nominated and seconded and voted on -

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/22968643-post328.html

Whether it succeeds, is up to all the members of Talkboard, and I do not mind either way on the outcome, but for goodness sakes lets see SOME action in there, or frankly we really do not need a Talkboard. Carol can make the few routine calls a year that TB are now doing.

Lets see if some of the new members - who have not had a chance to vote on a SINGLE things for 6 months, can get a little pro-active here, and get something on the table for a vote.

All of them can nominate and second any motion.

I served a few years there, and recall it used to take up a lot of time of all elected members, but things did get done, and at least we voted on several motions a month.

Glen

CMK10

oz, you've made your point. As I already mentioned, I have directed the other members to look at your posts in the other thread and TCook's post and have promised action and to think about what you've said. I don't think there was any need to drag up a 6 month old thread to say what you've already been saying and to remind us how we can do our jobs.

ozstamps

CMK10 - actually you will find I was typing as you made your post. My apologies for not reading your mind.

Anyway I was simply following up Markie's comment, that little seemed to have occurred last year, with the reality observation that NOTHING has occurred in the past 6 months. Not a single motion voted on by TB.

You were only voted on at Xmas, so presumably have participated in voting on no motions at all in your tenure?

Markie was on the elected TB too in the past as I recall, and this is simply a few older hands passing valid comment onto the new inductees. Nothing wrong with that.

"Total inaction is superb and safe policy" may well be the current TB motto, I do not know - but as a Flyertalk member I can express my comments on that apparent policy if I wish, in this "TalkBoard Topics" Forum.

This is the only thread I could see re the NEW Talkboard members so it indeed seemed MOST relevant to make the comments here, to update things.

Propose my motion why don't you - I am sure there will be a seconder, and vote against it (as you are free to do) as this huge 25 pixel icon --> <-- will chew up too much of your data bandwidth each month you assure us, but at least we will SEE a vote of some kind in 2014!

Glen

Dovster

I am certain there will be a vote. There has been a suggestion for TalkBoard to recommend that the Community Director establish a USA Forum. The Community Director posted in that thread that she thinks it would be a good idea.

Based on the history of Randy having asked a previous TalkBoard to recommend to him to establish three forums, which it immediately did (despite having voted earlier not to establish at least one of those forums), I feel confident that TalkBoard will vote to recommend to the Community Director that she establish the forum which she has urged it to recommend to her to establish.

(Of course, as with all such votes, it will merely be a recommendation by TalkBoard and the Community Director would be free to reject it and to refuse to establish the forum which she has said that she would like TalkBoard to recommend to her that she establish.)

joshwex90

A USA forum? As in a destination forum for the entire United States?

lin821

Read the relevant discussion TB thread if you want to learn more about it:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/talkb...s-section.html

bdschobel

This seems unfair to me. In FlyerTalk's early days, there was lots to do, and people like you did it. We all thank you for that.

Today, FlyerTalk is quite mature and established, and less needs to be done. Change for the sake of change is purposeless wheel-spinning that benefits no one.

We Talkboard members are all active here and paying attention to what's going on. The fact that we have not seen fit to recommend any changes for a while does not suggest dereliction of duty.

Bruce

SkiAdcock

Agree with the above 100%.

Also a bit confused on being told TB wasn't busy last year as there were votes on 9 motions.

Cheers.

JDiver

From an insider's perspective, that makes very good sense to me. Knowing when not to act unnecessarily is as much wisdom as knowing when deliberate action is required. As our off-site Americanism says, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Meanwhile, the Board does seem actively involved in proposals presented.

(As a member, not moderator here.)

CMK10

Thank you, I appreciate that. And as I related to oz in the other thread he made his complaints on, we have a lot of discussion in our private forum. I myself have made at least three suggestions that we debated and ultimately decided not to move further on.