Originally Posted by linsj
Robb makes some good points for AFT, but a big problem I see is this: Newbies and others will end up posting questions that already have a dozen threads in the appropriate forums. When these are moved to the correct forums, will they be merged into existing ones? Or will they end up duplicating threads already there? It's already time consuming when search turns up a multitude of threads to go through, many of which are repetitious.
Speaking for myself, in the FlyerTalk forums which I currently moderate, I already do merge duplicate threads together — and will more than happy to do so if the Ask FlyerTalk forum is created and a thread is eventually moved to one of those forums that already has an existing thread on a similar topic.
This way, when someone does a search on a particular topic, there are fewer threads that will appear as a result, hopefully assisting the FlyerTalk member in finding the sought-after information faster and easier.