Originally Posted by
peachfront
This gap at Flyertalk could have been fixed, or largely fixed, at any time over the past few years by using a simple technique that almost all other forums use. MOST discussion forums have a process for closing threads after a certain period of time. Let's say three months. Flyertalk instead prefers the "hazing" model of endlessly and forever threads that can be brought back from the dead after many, many years or even just allowed to ramble on for hundreds, even thousands of posts...If you do start a new thread, sometimes, some moderator is there to move your post to the end of one of these overlong threads or to the end of some ancient thread full of outdated information.
Thank you. Exactly my sentiment.
I mentioned it before but even to try gathering information from a thread that is a couple hundred pages and has thousands of entries... it's simply discouraging.