Originally Posted by
GUWonder
And how will people come around to acknowledging it's a placebo without the benefit of a proverbial placebo effect? Trial period it won't be, unless there is a calculable determination of what is success and what is failure in terms of "protecting" deals and there is upfront acknowledgement of what will be considered success and failure and how that will be determined.
If that was part of this motion and support for it, I'd probably be more in favor of this motion.
I don't think it is possible to determine this with any degree of certainty. There are too many variables at play outwith the control of FlyerTalk. Discussion on other IBBs, the proliferation of blogging activity and greater sophistication by airlines in detecting/monitoring "rough" transactions.
I have no real objection to this proposal. As written it's moderate and doesn't deviate from FT's mission.