MUCCI Roll Call
Jun 23, 2018, 4:20 am
#1711
Fontaine d'honneur du Flyertalk
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Morbihan, France
Programs: Reine des Muccis de Pucci; Foreign Elitist (according to others)
Posts: 19,164
Jun 23, 2018, 4:24 am
#1712
Fontaine d'honneur du Flyertalk
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Morbihan, France
Programs: Reine des Muccis de Pucci; Foreign Elitist (according to others)
Posts: 19,164
Right - question for you all - why is it showing as @PUCCI GALORE - what does that mean. Sorry to be Lo-Tech.
Jun 23, 2018, 4:31 am
#1713
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 756
No Angel - never. Anyone can join in - daftness (if there exists such a word) is not exclusive.
Right - question for you all - why is it showing as @PUCCI GALORE - what does that mean. Sorry to be Lo-Tech.
Right - question for you all - why is it showing as @PUCCI GALORE - what does that mean. Sorry to be Lo-Tech.
The former is a way of tagging you, which is meant to bring the post to your attention and link through to your profile; the latter is just a visual highlight with none of the 'perks' of the former.
Or, to put it another way: mentioning is to emboldening what F is to CW.
Last edited by newyorklondon; Jun 23, 2018 at 4:38 am
Jun 23, 2018, 5:24 am
#1714
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: BOS
Programs: BA Silver, Mucci
Posts: 5,289
Because we were told by the Mods to stay on topic and cut out the irrelevancies. Something to do with a high noise/signal ratio.
Jun 23, 2018, 5:26 am
#1715
Ambassador: Emirates Airlines
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Manchester, UK
Posts: 18,598
And I think the forum is better for it to be honest. It's got the right balance now I feel. The odd bit of frivolity (like this), but not too much.
Jun 23, 2018, 5:40 am
#1717
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: JER
Programs: BA Gold/OWE, several MUCCI, and assorted Pensions!
Posts: 32,140
Jun 23, 2018, 6:01 am
#1718
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Munich, Algarve, Sussex or S.F Bay Area
Programs: Mucci, BA Gold, A3*Gold, AA Plat, HH Gold, IHG Plat Amb, Marriott Plat
Posts: 4,157
Jun 24, 2018, 2:52 am
#1719
Fontaine d'honneur du Flyertalk
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Morbihan, France
Programs: Reine des Muccis de Pucci; Foreign Elitist (according to others)
Posts: 19,164
Jun 25, 2018, 4:55 am
#1722
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Manila, Philippines (MNL)
Programs: BAEC Gold [>20k Lifetime TPs] | Hilton Honors Lifetime Diamond [as is Mrs PtF] | Various Others
Posts: 6,156
In this instance I’ve got to take the opposite view to yours - this forum has become bland and boring. What I used to like about this forum was the irreverent British humour on display - if you wanted to be a part of it, fine; if you didn’t, nobody forced you to participate, and the option existed, as it still does, to block individual posters if you found their posts not to your liking. To the best of my knowledge no other forum exhibited the same mixture of useful information, discussion and humour as this forum used to.
Whether there has been a directive from the FT powers that be, or a deliberate shift in Mods policy, most attempts at light-hearted humour or banter these days on this forum gets strangled at birth.
Still, every cloud has a silver lining - as just updated by Moomba it would seem that my record haul of 14 Muccis isn’t going to be overhauled anytime soon; as far as I can make out HIDDY is a distant second with seven.
Jun 25, 2018, 5:14 am
#1723
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Provincie Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
Programs: MUCCI Gold
Posts: 2,512
Jun 25, 2018, 5:48 am
#1724
Community Director
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Norwich, UK
Programs: A3*G, BA Gold, BD Gold (in memoriam), IHG Diamond Ambassador
Posts: 8,473
Some posters may wish to reflect that the BA forum is, by a reasonable distance, the busiest on FT. Just because they no longer like it doesn't necessarily mean everyone else feels the same way @:-).
Like it or not, IB is a commercial concern that exists to make money. That means having content that brings people to the site. In turn, we all benefit from that by gaining from the advice given here.
It's no one thing that has caused the BA forum to sit at the top, but I'd suggest it's probably a mixture of general light-heartedness and serious, helpful content that's put it ahead. Most people, I think, will appreciate that the vast majority of members come here looking for help, not for a great laugh - that is the nature of sites like this these days - but there is still room for both in sensible proportion, and indeed you'll find no less a figure than the Community Director occasionally posting in both types of thread. It's why MUCCIs, and TFTG, will always be important parts of BAFT, but not by any means the *only* parts.
Like it or not, IB is a commercial concern that exists to make money. That means having content that brings people to the site. In turn, we all benefit from that by gaining from the advice given here.
It's no one thing that has caused the BA forum to sit at the top, but I'd suggest it's probably a mixture of general light-heartedness and serious, helpful content that's put it ahead. Most people, I think, will appreciate that the vast majority of members come here looking for help, not for a great laugh - that is the nature of sites like this these days - but there is still room for both in sensible proportion, and indeed you'll find no less a figure than the Community Director occasionally posting in both types of thread. It's why MUCCIs, and TFTG, will always be important parts of BAFT, but not by any means the *only* parts.
Last edited by NWIFlyer; Jun 25, 2018 at 8:50 am
Jun 25, 2018, 8:28 am
#1725
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: London
Programs: Mucci Blue, BAEC Gold, Blockbuster Video card
Posts: 1,378
Lighthearted banter with a bunch of vaguely like minded oddballs for whom air travel is a glorious thing, backed up by some individuals who frankly
1) Are walking encyclopedia when it comes to questions related to travel by this particular medium
2) In some cases go stratospherically above and beyond the call of duty when it comes to sharing that information and wisdom.
I frankly feel that I take far more from FT than I give and appreciate all the help.
1) Are walking encyclopedia when it comes to questions related to travel by this particular medium
2) In some cases go stratospherically above and beyond the call of duty when it comes to sharing that information and wisdom.
I frankly feel that I take far more from FT than I give and appreciate all the help.
