Some of you may have noticed the new External Miles and Points Resources forum that has been created in the Travel & Dining section of FT.

Please note that the new blog forum is not a place where all threads with blog links will be housed. The new forum has specific guidelines as to what is considered appropriate for that forum. See here.

At this time there are no specific guidelines or rules with regards posting links to blogs on FT. Unless they break any of the other generic rules around commercial links, offensive etc they are permitted.

When this thread was started last year there was a mixed response about if links to blogs should be allowed or not. To help try and achieve a middle ground I have encouraged new posters in the Trip Reports forum to post as much content as they can here and link through to blogs for pictures etc if necessary. I have also moved on some 'reports' that deal with a single aspect of a city or a city report to the Destinations forum.

Unfortunately I am never going to be able to please everyone on this subject. I try as much as I can to keep the reports on here relevant.

I trust that everyone, blogger and not, respect that this is a difficult area to manage and police. If I were to ban outright any links to blogs I would upset as many people as seem to be upset by there presence here.

There are obviously a wide range of opinions on this, and no single magic solution which will please everyone. All I can ask is that if you have concerns, you share them with me. Don't derail threads by diverting them away from the trip report which the thread is about in order to discuss whether the thread is appropriate or not.
I'll certainly listen and consider, but won't always act - but how and what people complain about is important for me to understand where the balance of opinion within the forum lies. Thanks for your understanding.

Please feel free to add to this debate in this thread.

Moomba
Moderator: Trip Reports