This is an example of an excellent question and in turn has become helpful. A few changes we've made. We no longer feature posts from this or other restricted forums as active threads on the front page of FlyerTalk as i learned from some of the above posts. This should help. As well, I have asked our volunteer moderator staff to be aware of answering questions in the way you have just described. This will actually be a topic during the next live Moderator chat scheduled next week and i think from then on you'll see better and more consistent help in this area.
As you can guess, no matter how much time you spend going over any situation, there's usually something you miss and your catch of this is a real help to all of us, members and moderators alike. I apologize if these types of posts in the past have caused any confusion and we'll certainly now be addressing it.
Thank you all for your support of FlyerTalk and in particular, FlyinHawaiian for bringing this to my attention.
Cheers,
Randy
Originally Posted by FlyinHawaiian
Randy:
I've been meaning to ask this, and this seems like a good time. Once in a while in the forums, I'll see a question by one of the newer members about how to obtain an upgrade certificate or something similar, and often the response other members will give is "this needs to be asked in Coupon Connection." While this is true, it also does alert people to the existance of a forum that they do not have access to (and, perhaps, encourage posting binges trying to increase their post count). In the future, would you prefer us to be less forthcoming about the existance of the Coupon Connection Forum in our public discussions?
Thanks for your time (and FlyerTalk in general).