Originally Posted by
Jenbel
I actually think that TB has become not relevant to FT (and that's why the majority of FTers are not interested in it). It was an interesting experiment, but times have changed. We have a Community Director who is able to make decisions now. Close TB and move on.
I'd tend to agree with this. I don't know what it was like in the "old days" of FT, but the TB bureaucracy seems to belong to a bygone era. The OP's story and some of the points mentioned upthread seem to highlight that, just IMHO.
I can't really see what purpose it serves. The arguments in support of TB only seem to talk about the functions it performs, because that's how FT is currently set up - but not why it's better than some other way.
Is there no other way to manage an online forum? Obviously so as other online forums function fine without such a formal management scheme. I'm not a forum junkie but others that I am familiar with are significantly more streamlined. Some of the things that would make FT more useable from a functional perspective aren't even (as I understand it) under TB's control, but are the purview of IB.
But back to the OP, I guess I don't see the harm in highlighting issues that folks are campaigning about in relevant threads. Just my two cents.