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Old Apr 12, 2002 | 10:43 pm
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cblaisd writes:

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Punki you continue to ask the very same question in several threads which you continue to initiate. And you continue to get the same answers. What I don't understand why you persist. Take the answers you've been given on those threads</font>
Yes, cblaisd this is true, I do continue to ask my questions. However, I do so only because I cannot take the answers I have received because, quite honestly, I have never seen a logical clear answer to this very simple question:

Why are we trying to force people to post general travel posts on Travel Buzz (where they are not inclined to post), rather than on FlyerTalk Miles under a "The Buzz" heading where they are inclined to post?

We know that there is a high cost to this policy, all I would like is a simple explanation as to its offsetting benefit.

While other more intelligent and enlightening answers may exist, the only answers I have seen are similar to this emotional (rather than logical) response that Dan just posted:

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Remember this, this is Randy's board. All he asks is that you play by the rules. (What rules?) Some of those rules are in print, and some are not. That's life baby. </font>


That IMHO is a great deal closer to Gestapo thinking (with which I am sadly quite familiar) than it is to caring, enabling logic. It saddens me that otherwise pleasant, intelligent FlyerTakers find this very offensive type of response tolerable and within the limits of decency and acceptability.



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