Originally Posted by
jackal
Now, all that said, I don't deal much with the other kinds of merged/consolidated mega-threads, and certainly none of the ones that I deal with in the Alaska Airlines forum are anywhere near the length of the ones posted above in the United forum, so my perspective shouldn't be taken as gospel. On the contrary, if it appears the vast majority of FlyerTalk members are displeased at current practices, it's the duty of TalkBoard to represent the membership to the administration of the forums.
Great feedback thanks. I agree that there is definitely something to be said for this issue. In some ways, some of this is just the limitation of discussion board technology. For some of these megathreads, they'd actually benefit from being in a wiki or maybe captured in an index thread of sorts, but then let the discussion happen largely in the new threads.
I think the other issue at play here is what the threshold is for merging threads. One of the more egregious UA threads is the "positive UA experiences" thread. If you take the definition liberally you could probably merge 5-10% of all threads into it. (by the way, if there was a "negative UA experiences thread, you could probably merge 70% of all threads into it.
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