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Old May 2, 2014 | 1:33 pm
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JDiver
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We will now close this thread for the reasons given; this is not a technical issue.

In the meantime, consider communicating with the forum moderators to pass on your concerns. Be aware they are volunteers with jobs, family and travel, so sometimes they can't spend as much time organising, archiving, cutting and trimming as they like. Though our goal is to provide good husbandry so informational megathreads don't get overly lengthy, discussion threads are not as crucial to trim regularly and even can show some interesting trending over time.

In more active fora, information fragmentation is the other side of the coin to megathreads; everyone has an opinion about which is worse, but searching for crucial information and coming up with fifty threads to sort and dig information out of is very frustrating.

But FlyerTalk is a community, and we can all add value for our membership. It's genuinely a two way street, some learning and some contributing. Often the first become part of the second group, or are both.

You can volunteer in several ways as well, such as volunteering as a moderator or Ambassador. Offer to help maintain and work on a thread of particular interest or topic you are expert in.

Is there a particular topic you're knowledgeable about? Starting or updating a wikipost for one of those threads, distilling the important and useful into the wikipost, and even providing links to salient posts, can be very helpful.

Does your predilect forum maintain a wiki on FlyerGuide? Anyone can add value and update those.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We appreciate them, and hope to both see more of you and welcome your participation in some FlyerTalk-building activities.

JDiver, Senior Moderator


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