Well, I guess we disagree...it depends on how you use FT.

It takes negligible time to wade through what you would call irrelevant posts which otherwise take up all of a single line on the board -- unless you open each of them, which is indeed “wading” -- but I am not sure why you would do that if the topic didn't interest you. Very few topic headings are so tricky so as to dupe people into threads they otherwise find unappealing.

But the proof is the pudding and not in your opinion or my opinion of what's "best": the fact that it indeed takes longer this way, in fact turns people off (not intellectually or emotionally, just in practice) -- based on my judging of the results of what's getting responded to at this point and the traction that posts which have been relegated to these other areas are getting -- and therefore the actual result when applied to the great mass of FT participants is that fewer posts get addressed/answered, outside of the major airlines and MilesBuzz...and that is less “value”, IMO.

Moreover, I don't understand why the airline boards, are allowed to be populated with so many non-mileage related questions if a strict enforcement policy is in place...probably because that would destroy those boards too. I’m certainly not advocating this in that I like the airline boards the way they are, but it is against FT’s current policy to not move all those posts about seats and destinations and meals to FT Travel.


[This message has been edited by nologic (edited 08-20-2001).]