We volunteer moderators work hard to moderate the MilesBuzz! forum. It is a difficult forum to moderate, for exactly the reasons made obvious by your questions. It's tough to have "hard and fast" rules, but we try to be consistent as much as we can.

In general, mileage deals that have the potential for "large" mileage rewards are kept in MilesBuzz!, even if they involve a specific airline or program. Think of MilesBuzz! as a place for mileage addicts. We want to know IMMEDIATELY when there's an opportunity for a large score. For example, large credit card point bonuses, or a method of gaining a large amount of airline miles. On the other hand, general questions about credit cards will be moved to the Credit Card Programs forum. Some older threads have been grandfathered in to avoid confusion.

Sometimes, if there's already a thread about the topic in another forum, we will just merge the two in the other forum.

Things can never be perfectly consistent when you have more than one moderator. You will certainly see some variations on how posts are handled. But we are of the same mind about the end result, which is an informative, civil forum.