Originally Posted by dg4255
I wholeheartedly agree with Gargoyle here. I feel that TB has sincerely let many of us down by forcing us to continually post in several different places and look in many different forums for the latest updates, quirks, and promotions that AZ's MilleMiglia program offers.
gleff, your comments about seeing if there is any "traffic" is just not a valid reason to me. Because those of us must continually sift through several different forums, it makes it pretty much useless to make any postings or few postings. If El Al gets its own forum, I fail to see the reason why AZ wouldn't get its own forum. In an earlier post, I had listed the actual numbers of frequent flyer programs on FT and there are many many airlines that have their own forum while having considerably fewer members of their frequent flyer program. Don't you think that out of the 1.8million members of MilleMiglia, enough would belong to FT and post to keep that forum active? What exactly are the criteria then if BD, LY, NZ, etc.. get their own forum, but a program like MilleMiglia is denied due to 'no reason'?
I can't disagree with most of what you've posted here
dg4255.
I voted in favor of creating an AZ Forum as I think the arguments here were convincing enough. Obviously not enough of my fellow TB'ers agreed.
I'm from the school that believes that one of TB's primary missions is to make FlyerTalk as user-friendly and hospitable as possible. And I don't believe that members should have to do double back flips and stand on their heads to get a new forum created.
The creation of a forum starts with a request and then a period of time ensues where arguments are made pro and con. At some point a TB member may then make a motion to vote on a forum proposal if the demand seems to be there. Whether it passes or not depends on how convincing the arguments are. But you also have to deal with the individual personalities of the TB members and their unique opinion of what it takes to improve FT. We certainly don't vote...or even think....in lockstep as we come from widely different backgrounds and locations. So some members will take more convincing than others.
We've added some new forums over the past few months and will hopefully continue to do so in the future. FT has grown fivefold over the last three years and what worked or didn't work, forum wise, in the past doesn't play a lot into my decisions. I'm focused a whole lot more on what FT should look like going forward than I am in what happened in the past when we only had a handful of members.
As others have stated here, perhaps this AZ issue will be revisited in the future.