"At the end of the day, the bottom line, take home message is that FlyerTalk Miles is for the discussion of Miles & Points, not whiskey, not kids in first class, not tipping the FA's, and not if overweight people should buy 10 seats or not. All that is for FlyerTalk Travel, peroid."

Burkey,

Wow. That is strong and harsh, when the overwhelming response of people here is that closing and moving threads -- what I call over-categorization and the zealous enforcement thereof -- isn't working.

As I mentioned previously, there are two, not very complicated, fixes:

1. Re-categorization...this is probably a periodic, ever-green process; and

2. Non-enforcement of "misplaced" posts -- allowing the "marketplace" so to speak to determine the fate of a given thread.

At this point, ignoring the issue, and even worse, refusing to allow discussion of the issue, isn't an acceptable response for many of us...it only alienates and frustrates people who are trying to contribute to the FT community.

In order for a given board to be valuable, it needs volume/activity...MilesBuzz provides a good catch-all for travel and miles oriented topics that don't fit into specific airline/supplier categories, or otherwise aren't trip reports, coupon exchanges, or totally non-traveler related issues which seem to go in Omni (not really sure what those are...but maybe advice on getting a good mortgage, although I am not sure we really care if a post found it's way into the Buzz when it seemingly belonged in Omni).

The point is that the new categorization doesn't work; enforcing it only makes matters worse; and silencing the debate just fuels the flames.

I would think you would welcome and appreciate the suggestions and take the matters/suggestions up with a higher authority?



[This message has been edited by nologic (edited 08-12-2001).]