Obviously, many FT'ers have different interests and come to the boards to illicit different, but particular bits of information and also to provide diverse input!

Merry, among others, has previously bemoaned that the initial focus of FT has perhaps been lost, or at the very least, diluted.

It stikes me that the board could possibly be roughly divided into 5 distinct primary types of posts or even areas :

1. Miles / Points

2. Airfares / Hotel/ Rental Prices

3. Travel Information (not miles or prices)

4. Community

5. OMNI

in approximate order of importance to me!


Has anyone ever given any thought to possibly segmenting the board into 5 such dintinct categories or sections?

One could perhaps ideally choose to go directly to an appropriate "section" of interest, possibly even on separate servers or portions of a server.

So an airline, for example, CO could have separate "sections" for mileage bonuses, and for special fare deals, and for other news informational type posts and so on!

It may be of potential considerable help to those who are frustrated either by slow connections and /or who are overwhelmed by the massive amount of posts and material!

As the boards have grown, it seems that there are many folks to support each distinct "section."

On the other hand, the more sections, the more difficulty in general there likely is/will be in properly posting to the appropriate section!

Or alternatively, if this is absolutely not feasable, we could have each poster select an appropriate numerical categorization to define their post. Perhaps this (1) as for miles, could also be displayed within the title?

Just a thought!

Anyone think this might work? Or that it might help? Or not!