Originally Posted by Tiki

This is a refreshing concept and I am glad to hear that at least one blogger (2 counting Loyalty Traveler) are capable of practicing discretion. It's sad that the Boarding Area over all seems to go for quantity over quality. What's the point of having 40+ bloggers when at least half of them just say the same thing and "hat-tip" each other. If it were me, I'd just keep the ones who are capable of creating original content and show discretion when it comes to killable deals and can the rest of them. But I have nothing to do with BA, it's owned by RP.

I liked the concept of TOBB-MP and some of the bells and whistles like having an avatar but the problem is that very little new content is going up. If you click on "What's New", you get 5 pages of links to blogs, Kiva posts, threads that pad posting stats "count up from 123" sort of thing.

PLEASE don't start ranking FTers and giving points for "liking" posts. It got ridiculous on MP with people begging for "likes". I think there are a lot of improvements that could be made on FT as well. I hate those mega-threads from 2003 with outdated content. At least the Priority Club forum starts fresh each year with the promo threads so you know what is current.

As long as killable deals are being exploited and killed, there is going to be mistrust and people who will stop sharing info if they think a blogger is going to go viral with it. I am still waiting to see the effects of blogging on the Discover America promo next year. I am also a bit worried about Grand Slam-not worried it won't happen, more worried that the hits will be harder to get and more expensive if the bloggers attract more people to it. US needs to make it sustainable for them too.