Originally Posted by
gemac
I agree. There is room in the airline forums for all questions relevant to that airline. But in the AA forum alone we have had the following threads in the last 2 days:
Which hotel card to choose? (Nothing to do with AA).
Traveling with pet turtle on QF.
Wants help finding a condo in NYC
And this is with our current rules. I fear that the OP's proposal would turn the airline forums into a giant garbage heap. The turtle guy at least had a question about flying (maybe).
We also get a lot of questions that involve AA only tangentially, but those are OK (like where to store your luggage at ORD). But once the question leaves the airport, I would like to see it in another, more appropriate forum.
Agreed again.
I don't know the specific posts you mentioned but I suspect a lot of people view the AA forum as their "home base" and there is perhaps a tendency towards "one stop shopping" especially when dealing with posters whom you already know.