About the only people that make their first thread in the Mileage Run Deals do so erroneously. None of the above should be posted in the MR Deals forum and many should not be posted in MR Discussion.

First thread: Has nothing to do with MRs, rather a question about hidden city ticketing.
Second thread: A general question about mileage accrual
Third thread: A request for a volunteer TA to construct an MR (against rules of MR Deals and MR Discussion forum)
Fourth thread: Blog advertisement

You're seriously using these threads as examples of newbies contributing helpful, properly categorized information to FT?? If these newbies hadn't seen the MR Deals forum, there would have been a higher chance they would have posted in the correct forum!

Invariably the crap that I have to skip thru in MR Deals are threads started by new posters:
joe57777 (2 posts) - Airlines Vouchers - "Hello to everyone! I am new to this site and I want to ask anyone if they know where I can buy airline vouchers and or frequent flyer miles?"
flymanbeast (200 posts) - Need to go to russia for cheap - "I need to go to krasandor in russia to meet a friend(female (: ) . Is there anyway to get cheaper prices then now by stalking it? its 600$ right now from spain.Would it be cheaper to take from countries around spain?"
inglis (8 posts) - looking for cheap flight from vancouver to sydney - "I am looking for cheap flights from vancouver,canada to sydney (Australia) . leaving last week of june and returning early August. Any suggestions on buying?"

I think with tcook onboard the MR mod team*, those kinds of posts are getting cleaned up more quickly and don't end up on my RSS feed (which is absurdly behind the times--any vbulletin tweaks that could make those things more real-time?). Last time we had this discussion, I posted a list of newbie irrelevant threads as long as my arm that had been posted to MR Deals in the last 3 days.

I'm still waiting for a single example of a person's first post being a killer MR Deal. Ok, the bar is too high. Let's just say, an <4 cpm MR. Ok, still too high: how about just a fare (rather than a request for one to be found) in the MR Deals forum at all?

(I thought I'd better read my own first FT posts for perspective. It's quite amusing, actually! For the record here's my first post. I must admit while I had good knowledge in some areas, I was quite moronic in others! )

* Not at all pointing fingers at other MR mods. I know the rush of unsustainable energy that often accompanies a new role! Furthermore, more mods means quicker spam cleanup all around, doesn't matter who the most recent addition was.