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Old Aug 12, 2001 | 10:09 am
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ChaseTheMiles
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Moderator1:
[b]...At home, do you not have seperate places where you put your socks, underware, pants and shirts? Or do you just open a door or drawer and chuck'em in all messed up? I doubt it. It's the same thing here, and here things will be organized. </font>
Clearly I'm a better frequent flyer than I am a housewife. At home, all my laundry end up in a pile until I have time to sort them out.

Seriously though, isn't the current problem where people are posting everything to the MilesBuzz forum an evidence of the forum's popularity? All other forums where some of these posts should belong don't have enough posters and therefore not enough responses.

Does moving a topic to its "correct" forum bring along the traffic that it needs to that forum? It seems that people are posting to MilesBuzz because this is where people get responses. Simply a supply and demand situation.

When I see some locked topics, I go read the posts, but I don't go to the new forum to find follow-up messages. Am I one of the norm?

My suggestion is to leave the "offending" post for a week or when it gets over 20 responses, then move it to where it belongs.

Moderator1, thanks for taking on an un-thankful job. You are helping to set the standards for other moderators, so please understand that the posts regarding the moderators are meant to be helpful. If we didn't care, we wouldn't have bothered to post. After all, if we don't like FlyerTalk, we could move somewhere else.
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