I cant argue with you about that, but the whole idea of flyertalk is for frequent flyers to get together to share information. Making information secret is not the answer. I saw a post earlier today where a person blatantly talked about taking the info and posting it on slick deals....now thats just an insult to everything we are here trying to do so I understand why there are a lot of people upset about the situation but again I will say that the information here on flyertalk should be general information that can be shared with fellow frequent flyers.
I don't know how the problem can be resolved honestly, but I don't agree with the whole secret society type of deal. It totally sucks when a person comes in here and messes it up for everyone by posting information somewhere else, but I still feel that information should be shared...