Rudi writes:

I agree this is true for regulars and there is clear evidence that regular posters are making a real effort to think about the proper forum before they post.

Miles Buzz, however, month after month, year after year continues to be filled with closed posts, sometimes almost as many closed as open. Why?

There are those that claim that it is because those who post there are just plain lazy, but I would suggest that it happens because Miles Buzz is at the top of FT Miles and that is the place where new folks naturally go. They have no idea where to post so they post where they are.

Is it possible for the Talk Board and/or the Talk Team to discuss the feasibility of rearranging the forums on the boards? As I have suggested earlier, I think it would be worth a try to put the airline and hotel forums first. If Randy's focus is to guide FT to focus more on miles and points, that would certainly be appropriate.

My concern arises from comments I have received from some of the hundreds of people I have referred to FT over the years. Several have indicated that they find FT very confusing and were turned off by seeing such a high percentage of closed posts in the only forum (Miles Buzz) that they visited. Their impression was that all FT forums where that disjointed.

Repositioning the forums might dramatically reduce the amount of post moving.