Originally Posted by
bdschobel
Furthermore, I posit that Flyertalk should give more weight to people who want forums retained than to people who want forums removed. The latter group gains essentially nothing by getting their way. They can easily just not go to a part of this site that they see as unnecessary or redundant. The former group actually would lose something they value. Whose interests should Talkboard serve?
All of our opinions should be weighed equally whether we agree with them or not though am not surprised you see differently.
TB should be serving
all member interests and not just those few lobbying for a special interest forum.
Originally Posted by CMK10
are we to cater to those who want a niche forum and who have suffered harassment when smoking threads are created otherwise?
In the discussion thread on the proposed forum one senior moderator
posted that in their experience that was not always the case.