Originally Posted by
RichMSN
Bingo.
I fly one airline and stay with one hotel chain. I'd come here 10% as often as I do without "fun" places to go like TS&S, TravelBuzz, OMNI, and CommunityBuzz. But since OMNI exists, I always look in on the Northwest forum every time I come. It keeps me coming back.
But OMNI is definitely looked down upon officially and unofficially and there is a significant subset of FT (my opinion only) that look down upon those that post in and enjoy OMNI.
I applied to be a moderator in the airline forum I frequent. I was told I was not a good candidate because more than a certain percentage of my posts are in OMNI, regardless of the tone or content of those posts.
So I'm sorry to see members of the current TalkBoard, especially Dov, line up with this line of thinking. I still think that a post in Omni giving Rachel career advice is more valuable than the 400th thread complaining about children in an aircraft or the 6,000th thread complaining about people pulling on a seat.
But hey, just keep picking on OMNI. It is an easy target, after all.
Picking on OMNI and people who post on OMNI seems to never get old.
I haven't accessed OMNI in a couple of years (i.e., since then just have some posts there from when the threads get "banished"), and yet without OMNI being around for my earlier days, I'd never have gotten around to contributing 10,000+ posts to the travel forums either. And a lot of people "from OMNI", including those with whom I routinely disagree/disagreed there, have contributed substantially to maximizing my travel experiences -- so that angle of OMNI-bashing won't come from me.