Jerry, I thought I was the only one who felt that way. Back when NW and AA were doing the major promos for shopping partners - 5 partners and 20 partners - I was never reading those forums, but Miles Buzz put me on to them. I would have missed 'em otherwise.

When I began hanging out on FT, MilesBuzz to me indicated (in my connotation) the "hottest info." (Much like the official definition of MilesBuzz - "discussion of the latest frequent flyer program buzz...").

Its placement at the top reinforced that.

Now...I still look at MilesBuzz first about half the time, but rarely find anything of interest. The way we are doing things now, I would suggest moving it to the bottom, changing the name to "Unclassifiable" and defining it as "discussion of odds and ends related to miles or points that really can't be placed in any particular forum."

(I can handle, on the other hand, the removal of non-miles and non-points posts and moving them to Travel Buzz or Omni, though I tend to think that TravelBuzz and Omni should be double listed on both FTMiles and FTTravel for convenience...and then people would find it easier to post in these major categories.)

By the way...no insult intended to the moderators, who appear to be making a bunch of posters (at least those who love posting "Buzz?") happy by the way things are done now, and I still love FT however it shakes out. Just seems like MilesBuzz has turned into leftovers.