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Old Nov 8, 2016 | 1:51 pm
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Originally Posted by Zorak
I just noticed the "News" button with a thumbs-up symbol. The tooltip/hover-over-text says "Breaking News" -- what is this for, how does it differ from Threa d Tools -> Suggest Thread for TalkMail and why does it need to appear on every single post in a thread instead of being similarly in the Thread Tools menu?
These are two separate functions:

Suggesting a thread for TalkMail suggests it for the periodic member newsletter.

Suggesting a post - sometimes a post within a thread breaks interesting formation about a frequent flyer program change, aircraft purchase, property addition or deletion, etc. - and might be of interest to those who check FlyerTalk's front page and news stories. These change daily, or more frequently.
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