With respect nixande, you've only been on the board a few months, although you may have lurked before that. OT has always been part of BA... sometimes more, sometimes less. If something interesting happens with BA or BAEC, then less... but as you may have noticed, not too many changes seem to happen (at least with BAEC) and we haven't had any nice offers for a while (except tesco ones, obviously

).
Yes, there are some threads which would sit better on other boards (usually OMNI or the particular country/places boards when people ask about recommendations for other places). But if it ain't broke, why try and fix it? The board is not yet dysfunctional (I won't say the same for many of the posters

), and IME has never become so (although it did come close during the catering strike last year...when we were being swamped with "Will my flight be ok?" threads).