Originally Posted by
oliver2002
Generic FRA questions are quickly moved to the Destinations-Germany forum by the LH M&M forum mods. In fact we have quite a few members who are quick to report 'not LH M&M related, remove it asap!!!'.
The baby question is very specific to LH, the DUS security situation maybe not so much.
My point is that the destinations forum is the right home for airport related topics. But if it has a airline (MCT, lounge access etc) or hotel (chain hotels next to LAX/FRA/etc) aspect, then it stays in the respective section.
It hasn't been that way always on FT. It seems like the effort to move stuff to the destinations forum has been kicked up big time in more recent years over what has been more typical for most of my time on FT.
The notion of what is the right home can be seen at in different ways. The response levels to a given subject are not equal across all of FT, and sometimes a discussion about a topic in the airline forums does provide a way better service to FTers than a discussion about the same topic in another forum that is a relative ghost town. Amusingly, the thread being moved may sometimes result in improved response levels if only because the moved thread indicator in the original forum used by a thread's OP ends up having more FTers clicking onto the thread. That makes the Destination forums a lot more active but it doesn't necessarily make them a good anchor forum to keep up or increase FTer participation levels when it comes to the topic.