I did. And you made clear that you feel it belongs in a forum for Ryanair, not in a forum for Visa/Mastercard.

As I said in my original post, And that's a perfectly reasonable place for it to go.

As you say in your reply over in the Visa/MC forum, you were torn yourself as to where to post.

Hmmm. I didn't really want to play FlyerTalk ping pong BUT:

1. The ryanair.com card is NOT a miles earning card (the criterion for the Visa/Mastercard forum). The post does not belong there. Most Ryanair customers use debit cards, not credit cards, to avoid the booking fee.

2. The post was more to do with Ryanair than the card. Ryanair happens to be the biggest low frills carrier in Europe. To offer something approaching an FFP is interesting to me and others who follow these carriers - quite a few if the number of other posts mentioning Ryanair and other no frills carriers is to be believed.

3. Is the qualification for posting on FlyerTalk whether you find the information of interest? Dangerous. Less polite folks may think there is censorship here.

The zillion divisions of topics and their overlap is why I don't post here very much, and why I find the other forum much more useful. Posting a new topic almost always gets the attetion of the thread police, and it would take me hours to daily read all of the threads that might have something useful to me, so I don't. One of the problems is that whenever someone posts so much as a thank you, the entire thread moves to the top of the list without benifit of new title to the post. A system that allows new titles for every post would be really helpful.

I prefer a very liberal interpretation of what gets posted on Buzz and Spam, the only two threads I read. I don't mind the treads being moved, so long as the original post continues to be listed here. In fact, appropriate moving cures the problems of the "thank you's".

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I think it is important to err on the side of permissiveness rather than restrictiveness. That is the beauty (and potential ugly chaos) of the internet.

What's really too bad is, unlike USENET, I can't just *PLONK* somebody. I know who the biggest bozos are (IMO, and clearly not "H"umble ), and filtering them out would save me a lot of time.

Just my .02.

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.

I do like being able to start in Milesbuzz and be directed to the right forum. As long as the initial posts of redirected topics remain on Milebuzz, all you need is to go to the appropriate forum. I think of Milebuzz as a triage point.
Bigger topics involving multiple airlines/hotels can always start here and remain here if they are broad enough.