The "Thank You Moderator..." thread below is broken (the whole site seems to have been having strange technical problems lately)...now the thread itself won't open up and my reply within it won't "take" (responds with weird "the site may be full" error messages), so here is my response after clacko at about # 23 or so:

I do not believe that this "experiment" is positive step.

Frankly, if people, answered someone’s Air China post in UA, because as UA flyers they had experience in the region, then GREAT! Everyone wins.

How is it better to force the question into Air China "Siberia" where it goes unanswered?

If you are reading the UA board and see a question on Air China and don't care about it, then skip over it and SO WHAT!

BTW, I have never blamed the moderators for enforcing the rules (although I find moving the discussion of these issues to Suggestion "Siberia" a little extreme); nor do I blame the powers that be here for trying new things; but I don't think this rule/change/policy works better then the old policy of not moving/monitoring posts that are "off topic" and letting the free market prevail.

While it may sound lazy to say that having to go to multiple boards is “less convenient”, as a practical matter, it isn’t about me and my own laziness or lack thereof, but about the majority of people. Less “convenience” = less traffic = less “value”, and the current site offers less "value" TO ME by spreading posts so widely that they get less traction, and I and evidentially many others think this is a worse result, and not a better one.

Now, this has nothing to do with the Bill of Rights or Hitler, and isn’t something that rises to the level of an impeachable offense, but IMO it is a step in the wrong direction, and so I speak out for what I believe is a better direction, about which I acknowledge there are legitimate arguments on both sides.

Is there a compromise...evolution from here