You are correct.

However, everyone has different values and will therefore apply them in different ways.

Sure, traveling as a passenger in a premium-class cabin can be an excellent — and perhaps even opulent — experience. However, I do not drink alcoholic beverages nor need the extra seat width associated with a premium class cabin. Therefore — in certain cases — I find more value using my miles on more flights in the economy class cabin to take me to more places around the world than fewer flights in the premium class cabin.

Sure, I like the extra legroom, the upgraded meals and the complimentary use of the in-flight entertainment system in the premium cabin any day over the options of the economy class cabin. However, I have traveled to Prague, Singapore, Paris and Tokyo from the United States and survived just fine, thank you.

I also enjoy getting that suite upgrade with lounge access on the top floor of an expensive hotel — but that huge room can get lonely if you are there all by yourself, and I get uncomfortable with over-attentive service after a while. A comfortable bed in an inexpensive hotel room will do just fine for me in many cases — especially if I can use significantly fewer points.

Many of the “bloggers” espouse repeatedly about premium service and upgraded amenities. That serves a certain niche market and provides useful information. However, not everybody uses their miles and points for the premium experience. Sometimes quantity over quality works better than quality over quantity — but that is up to the preference of the reader. I personally do what I can to take advantage of both so that I can maximize my miles and points in terms of squeezing as many flights and hotel rooms out of them as I can, while sometimes using them for premium experiences — especially if they are offered at a discount through a promotion, for example.

In the Trip Reports forum on FlyerTalk, sometimes I get more enjoyment reading about the excited person who used miles for the first time in the economy class section of a flight than about the jaded person who has booked a suite and taken a shower on every airplane on every airline that offers that experience.

Finally, I do not believe that “bloggers” are ruining FlyerTalk. I do believe, however, that there needs to be more differentiation between the topics about which they write and stick to those topics — for example, if the weblog is about Air India and the entry posted is about how to get a suite at a Starwood hotel, that is like The Weather Channel showing Blazing Saddles as a feature movie. It is inconsistent and just does not work.

I also believe that there should be a sharing of deals, but with enough discretion used where the deals would not be “killed off” — and if that means not posting a weblog entry about the deal altogether, so be it...