I think the issue was with having the credit card offers here, the new programs to earn miles here, and all that, a lot of people that joined asking to be spoon fed how to sign up for cards to travel for free became and issue and was clogging up this forum.

There was a discussion in the TalkBoard forum, but there wasn't really a consensus as to the best option as to what to do. Having anything miles earning, plus all the people asking for advice on how to travel for free was pushing the actual threads that belonged here several pages deep, and harder to find.