Maybe a forum to which such posts could be moved would help the moderators and reduce the occurrence of shilling elsewhere on FT? Thoughts on that, anyone?
Yes, that is one of the many good reasons to create this forum.
To summarize:
- Blogs are commercial ventures that offer a product/service to the points and miles hoarder community. As such, the commercial promotion should be segregated into its own forum just as the TravelTools commercial promotion was.
- Blogs are not only here to stay, they are multiplying and becoming more and more of a go-to source for points and miles information and opportunities.
- Blogs run the gamut from pure shills and con men to incredibly informative and insightful.
- Blogs are a topic that FlyerTalkers want to talk about in terms of their relative merits, their business operations and their content, etc., etc.
- Many FlyerTalkers prefer to talk about blogs here on FlyerTalk among other points and miles enthusiasts rather than in the comments sections of blogs among relative strangers.
- Right now much of the BlogTalk takes place in a single mega-thread in MilesBuzz while other BlogTalk takes place in random corners of FlyerTalk spanning all the way from MilesBuzz down to OMNI.
- If a FlyerTalker is not interested in BlogTalk, having it in its own forum makes it simple and convenient to avoid such talk.
- The single argument raised against a BlogTalk forum is that it might get a little too personal and vitriolic against blog operators; an un-provable possible-terrible that could apply to the creation of any new forum and, if used as a reason to close forums, would lead to the immediate closing of the UNITED Mileage Plus forum.
