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Old Dec 11, 2011, 7:19 pm
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kokonutz
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Originally Posted by cblaisd
Despite what feels like contradictory complaints that too many things are moved and too few things are moved, I would aver that there continues to be a need for a forum where general travel news (not flogging blogs) stories can be discussed and which are non-airline/hotel/geography-specific.

Here are some examples of such from the forum:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...avel-card.html

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...ested-dui.html

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...lt-renton.html

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...installed.html

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...est-while.html
Weird. I thought I posted earlier today that I had started a thread about this in the private TB forum. I guess I forgot to hit submit reply or something.

Anyway, I posted the following in the TB private forum today:

Originally Posted by kokonutz
Is it time to close 'Travel News?'
Proposal/suggestion/question/debate: Should Travel News be eliminated/refocused?

The forum appears to be redundant to the program or destination forums that exist on FT. I think it ought to be closed.
I also posted this in regard to cblaisd's notion above:

Originally Posted by kokonutz
That's a very small number of stories [that don't fit into a specific FT forum]. FT is pretty comprehensive.

What few of those there are belong in travelbuzz.
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