Originally Posted by
RichardInSF
The owner of FT, Interstate Brands, wants page views to increase, presumably so that ad exposure increases, leading to revenue increases. It would also be normal that there are financial incentives tied to these corporate goals for some employees.
Originally Posted by
RichardInSF
Will this degrade FT? Almost certainly, but the degradation will be reduced significantly for those of us who are here for the original travel purpose if the area that is pumped up is just OMNI. And except for the recent Amsterdam ticket giveaway, that's been the case.
So please run all the prize contests in OMNI, bring the folks who don't care about travel into that forum, and keep the rest of FT true to its original purpose.
1 - It's Internet Brands
2 - The Amsterdam contest was in CommunityBuzz (sort of an OMNI-like forum in that it's not directly mile/point related) so I don't see how the contest degraded your travel talk.
FWIW: a lot of us care about travel and want to have some social fun at the same time. The two are
not mutually exclusive. @:-)