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Old Mar 25, 2012 | 3:50 pm
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exbayern
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Originally Posted by SanDiego1K
I shudder when I read that, as that is not the case. 35-40% of our moderators are from outside the US. Talkboard has increased its worldwide focus the past 18 months by searching for gaps in coverage of international carriers. I have not observed US-centric focus amongst either group.

Let's give everyone a blank piece of paper. Tell me how you would organize the regional forums. What would be top tier, and what would you move under each?
Thanks. I shuddered as well, then I 'got over it'

As to organisation, that is an interesting one. It's like the world map; depending on where you are in the world, it is laid out differently ie North America is not always in the centre.

However, I would do something such as

'The Americas'
- Canada
- US (with sub fora for the most popular areas, and I agree that Orlando may not be one of them...)
- Mexico
- and so on moving southwards and eastwards to include the various current fora

'Europe'
- UK and Ireland
- France
- Germany
- the Nordic countries
- and so on moving again southwards and eastwards including those pesky countries such as Turkey and the rest of the muddied area on the right hand side of the map which are often classified as Europe, or Asia, or the Middle East, but are really considered Europe

'Africa'
- now it gets messy! Do some of the countries listed as 'Middle East' get listed here?

'Asia'
- India
- China
- etc again moving southwards and eastwards

'Australia' (can't forget them!!)

'Antartica'

Ultimately however, whatever you end up with, someone will be offended, or lost. If the goal is to make things easier to locate, as well as provided some order and logic, then I think that using the continents as a starting point may make sense (although I did group the Americas together)

(Maybe what we really need is a visual map so that posters know where to look. )

Using Baku as an example: Awhile back I wanted up to date, recent information. I found little on FT. Now I find little except in the LH forum about a snow delay, and then a rather odd thread in a hotel forum with posts from people who had never been there and were rather uncomplimentary. In the end, I did a google search and found Baku or Azerbaijan mentioned in a few places on FT but I don't believe where I expected to find it on FT ie in the destination forum for that city/country. Ultimately I went elsewhere for information.
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