But that's a private conversation. From a moderator's side, they get various independent points of input. But there is no collaboration. And from the poster side we have no idea if any other members share our issues/concerns/suggestions or have different ways of looking at them, thinking about them or addressing them.

It's the difference between a letter to the editor and a comment section in an online story. One gets your point across. The other adds to a conversation. And since this is FlyerTALK, not FlyerSENDEACHOTHERPMS it seems like this collaborative conversation ought to be the norm.