Originally Posted by
oliver2002
What is strange is that they both highlight/trump the FT talkboard factoid in their bios.
Indeed. And I suppose that since I have been on the TB for several years and even the VP of the TB, my FF expert CV ranks right up there with the Thought Leader's!
Originally Posted by 84fiero
I don't think kokonutz was referring to just this forum in particular - there is a whole FlyerTalk out there; that's what I had in mind anyway. There is no need to avoid the whole site if one doesn't care for a particular forum. There are certainly forums I avoid on here.
Precisely. I get why they don't want to participate here: this forum competes directly with their comments sections for page impressions. And if you look at the first few pages of this thread Gary did participate...but it never went the way he wanted.
But Gary posted what could have been a post in reply to bedleman's thread in the
AA forum as a blog post instead. IOW, he had to repost the thread OP, then offer his opinion on his blog rather than simply offering his opinion on bedleman's thread.
And i get why: $$$/thought leaderyness.
And also, he is not bound by the limits of the FT TOS on his blog and he did use the occasion to take some personal shots at the OP of that AA forum thread, including disclosing lots of personal information about him...