Originally Posted by
miffSC
I tend to agree with you on this assessment. I know the bloggers are, in many cases, thinking that they are providing a 'service' in publishing mistakes like this but I think they shoot themselves and the rest of us in the foot by doing so. Most of them have subscription services for email notifications and if they want to let their reader base know of something, they could always do so in an email. I know for a fact that one blogger does this and I have received some important information that way.
The Delta deal from Pittsburgh is an example of this. Once it went mainstream last night and this morning, it was essentially dead within a couple of hours.
A close friend visited the US offices in Phoenix and was given a tour. They have three employees whose job it is to monitor FlyerTalk, milepoint, and Twitter simply to find out what is going on with the scuttlebutt. They do not respond, they only monitor. Do we not think that the other airlines and hotel businesses do not do the same?
The problem is the Bloggers (or most) are looking to make big $$$ or at least be King of the Hill among the Bloggers. the only way to accomplish that is by having a very large membership = having to post in public these type of things otherwise no one will join up.
So they put their Potential $$$$ ahead of Everything else, otherwise once 1 Blogger posts it people will stop viewing the Blog and view the Blog that is posting the stuff
isnt that how the Dog killed many good finds, it would be 1 thing if they themsleves found it but all too often they are simply reposting what they saw or someone emailed them about