<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ozstamps:
I still am at a loss to understand this prevailing (hypothetical) scenario. A British Midland Airlines flyer posts in the Star Alliance Forum that he wants to redeem a Europe->Asia Award in Business Class and asks experienced FT'ers whether he is best advised to choose TG, SQ, OS, SAS or LH, all of whom fly there.
Patron's habitual style on the STAR forum would seem to be to close the thread and move it to British Midland Forum, arguing if you are using BMI miles - then go there and ask your questions.</font>
Seems ok, up to a point - if using BMI miles, then it makes sense to ask the question in the BMI forum, since it is the BMI experts who know the ins and outs of BMI's rules.
But, as I said, only up to a point. There are times where the expertise of members of affiliated programs is warranted.
And in an "Alliance" thread (Star, OneWorld, etc) I would think that nothing is OFF-topic, IF it is related to one of the carriers in that alliance.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I agree with you Scott that on the boards with light traffic, that Moderation possibly is best kept for grossly off-topic threads or bad flaming etc. Topics of little interest or a little off-topic generally die a natural death.
The smaller forums often build a certain cameraderie among regulars. For example,
this current one in the Qantas Forum about what red wine to buy as a gift for a friend in the USA has already 30 posts. It has nothing WHATEVER to do with QF, and one feels sure if posted in UA, DL or AA etc would have seen it rapidly moved to Travel Buzz or Dining Buzz - or even OMNI which has heaps of wine threads lately.
Not so - in the QF forum the Moderator offers his own wine suggestion, so things work differently in smaller Forums very often.</font>
Awww, shucks. We finally got a mention.
I agree with you though that in the smaller forums,
willyroo's famous saying, "moderation in moderation" should be an integral part of controlling the forum.
Heck, if the QF forum was to be improperly moderated, nothing would be posted, we always seem to degenerate to the best beer or whatever.
My point is that each forum has its own dynamics, and those dynamics need to be taken into account when determining how to moderate the forum.[/QUOTE]
(Apologies for the drivel).
Dave
[This message has been edited by thadocta (edited 04-19-2003).]