Punki questions:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The desription of FlyerTalk Community is:
The official get together page for the FlyerTalk community.
What exactly, however, does that mean? Is Community for the getting together of members of the community in cyberspace, for becoming closer friends for caring for and sharing with one another? Or, is it only for the planning of face to face parties?</font>
Answer:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">FlyerTalk Community - Here's where members can link and talk about there next get togethers. Whether its the Party in Paradise or the local FlyerTalk chapter in Dallas, here's where the community plans their events.</font>
FYI, that's from:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum75/HTML/000008.html
That's pretty clear to me, but for those that weren't around at it's conception, they might not know and a better descriptor would be in order, IMHO.
Itineraries are quick chance "passing in the night" sort of things. Community is for more organized get togethers.
IMHO, everything about your children, favorite sports team, religious preference, job situation, political agenda, etc. belongs in
OMNI. That's what it was created for and orginally was quite functional until some folks just started flooding it with anything and everything that passed over their news reader.
I believe that as folks get to the point that they don't have as much frequent traveler stuff to learn here anymore, that they start posting more and more OMNI stuff (but not always in the OMNI forum
). For these folks, rather than a frequent traveler resource, FlyerTalk becomes a big part of their day-to-day social life beyond traveling.
That's fine and good if kept in a dedicated forum, but it should not be the primary funciton of FlyerTalk, IMHO.
Prior to OMNI, most personal info was gleaned from side bars and personal comments to existing threads in the various airline program forums. Then we created OMNI to free the personal stuff from the factual resource of FlyerTalk.
I really wish people would use OMNI more for their
personal posts, and others use OMNI less as a dumping ground for any general news item that they personally find interesting.
And kudos for the moderators that keep moving the stuff posted in the wrong forums! I know they can't catch 'em all, but I appreciate the ones they do catch and I personally don't think they are prejudiced just because they don't or can't get to them all due to limited time on their volunteer job.
Personally, I've always commented that I think the airline forums should start right off at the top of the bulletin board. I think you'd see a lot less incorrect posting in MilesBuzz and Community if it was arranged that way. Because I believe newbies (before they learn the ropes) and others, tend to post where they first enter and see the biggest post count.
So some post there
at the sacrifice of organization, just to get what they think will be the most readership.
IMHO.