cblaisd

+1

That also makes it easier for new folks to know where to look for information.

tcook052

I also agree merging and renaming is my preference. The traffic for the "Budget" topics is also low enough that it wouldn't swamp a merged forum and affect current "Other" forum users adversely.

nsx

I agree with the thrust of this proposal. Geographical identity trumps other considerations for the Antarctica forum. For airline forums, not so much. I apologize for what in retrospect looks like a bad idea.

Possibly related to this proposal, rumors have appeared about a merger of Spirit and Frontier, which would finally give Spirit its own forum by the back door. We might want to consider what would happen to traffic with Spirit removed from the Budget umbrella.

SkiAdcock

koko, I find it inappropriate (and a violation of TOS) that you would post something I posted in another thread that was really directed towards you & then cut/paste it into a thread in a post directed towards tcook052 & not say that it was a post directed towards you in a sep thread (or provide a link to the post I made) showing its initial use, but made it sound as though something you were saying yourself for the first time in response to the OP.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/24812068-post26.html

Cheers.

MSPeconomist

I'm not sure what "appropriate thread" (singular) you mean, but glancing at the first page of the TBT forum and skimming thread titles, I see the following, addressing only my own participation in such discussions:

Proposal to amalgamate the "Budget" and "Other"....(started May 10, 2015): I posted once on May 10 and twice on May 15.

Voting Underway: Return Budget Airlines...." (started today): I posted here, although about the motion itself rather than about the issue of shutting down fora.

Travel News: This Time....(started May 12): I posted twice here already.

Close the Information Desk Forum (started December 1, 2014): I posted three times here.

merge forum requests? (about LAN and TAM): I posted here.

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Continuing onto the second page of forum title listings for this forum, I only see one more potentially relevant thread, and this takes us back to threads where the most recent posts were at the end of October 2014:

Close the recently created Premium Deals Forum: I posted twice here.


Forum activity statistics: I've posted three times here in 2015, but also earlier, in 2012 and 2013.

kokonutz

It was satire: Applying the logic I learned in the Travel News thread to this thread (two very different standards/arguments are being applied by some posters). @:-)

The correct way to react to potential TOS violations is to click the little red triangle with an exclamation point in it to the left of the potentially offending post. @:-)

SkiAdcock

Thanks for the apology in posting something that was directed towards you in a separate thread as though you wrote it to the OP of a different thread. Quite disappointing really.

Cheers.

kokonutz

Jokes aren't funny if one has to explain them, alas.

SkiAdcock

Well you can do so when you're buying me a pint the next time I'm in your town

kokonutz

Deal! ^