I gotta agree, Chicago should have it's own titled forum, as should the other "consolidated" cities, unless there is difficulty getting a willing moderator.

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What an ignorant action to merge Chicago into "Midwest."

It reminds me of the unenlightened decisions of board members in condo associations.:rolleyes:

^ Chicago is in the Midwest as far as I'm aware, is it not? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwes...tes#Definition)

Is it that you think Chicago should continue to have a separate forum? Or that Chicago's not actually in the Midwest?

Just as LA, SF and LV are in the west. Your point being?

East coast and west coast get the snowflake treatment.

Exactly, we're proud to be a Midwest city. The point is that Chicago is a big enough destination to not mix in with hundreds of other cities, just like the ones mentioned above. If the reason was to increase participation in Chicago-related posts, it's likely to have the opposite effect.

I think the reason was the opposite, from what was posted up thread - that it was to increase traffic to the Midwest forum. Now those who want to post about MSP, DTW, CLE, etc, will have to wade through a lot of Chicago threads.

I guess I don't understand why the various forums had to be merged. It's not like IB is going to run out of bandwidth.

Cheers.

Exactly, I just don't see why the Midwest forum not being super busy was a problem.

I'll be voicing my opinion as well in the above linked thread too. When I need info about Chicago I don't want to sort through other smaller city threads and vice versa.


I swear when it comes to making changes on FT the powers that be make their choices based on the max number of people they can piss off at once.

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Pain in the rear

I wasn't making a point; I was asking a question, hence the second sentence of my post ending with a question mark.

Then the question was either intentionally obtuse or based on not having read any of the other comments in this thread.

I, for one, am also displeased with this particular decision.

I was referring to the post directly before mine. I tried to use the caret character rather than quote it, but it changed to a "thumbs up" which is obviously misleading.

Me too
 

Using Midwest Nice, of course :)

I don't recall ever reading a thread in this forum until today, and I've been here a while. ;)

I'm Chicago bound next month, and opened the Midwest forum; then 'searched' Chicago. That move got me to this thread. :o

Since I'm a New Yorker, I have an opinion. But since this isn't my neighborhood, I'll say this one thing... dumb move by IB.

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If they felt there were too few posts to justify a standalone Midwest forum, would have made more sense to combine it with the West forum, than with Chicago.

For that matter, if post count is how we're judging, would make sense to combine West and Texas, or combine Pac NW and Alaska.