Suggestion: Close the Gaming Loyalty Programs Forum
Jun 24, 2015, 11:20 am
#31
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I frequent the Gaming forum and have learned several good tips there. While I could hunt around a bunch other websites to get some of the same information, it's certainly easier to have it here on FT where I get the scoop on other loyalty programs. What does it hurt to keep open?
Jun 24, 2015, 11:50 am
#32
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There are only 2 forums with less daily activity than Gambling Loyalty, Cuba and Antarctica. There are 95 forums with less activity than Travel News. Travel News gets an average of 9 posts a day while Gambling Loyalty get .7. I'd hardly call Travel News "moribund". Would you consider Gambling Loyalty, Cuba or Antartica moribund?
Jun 24, 2015, 12:58 pm
#33
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Views, however, may be unobtainable statistics since no one answered my earlier question:
Jun 24, 2015, 1:10 pm
#34
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Is your data counting threads that get moved OUT of Travel News? If so, not sure you should be counting those.... because they did not belong there!
There are only 2 forums with less daily activity than Gambling Loyalty, Cuba and Antarctica. There are 95 forums with less activity than Travel News. Travel News gets an average of 9 posts a day while Gambling Loyalty get .7. I'd hardly call Travel News "moribund". Would you consider Gambling Loyalty, Cuba or Antartica moribund?
Jun 24, 2015, 1:28 pm
#35
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We'll have to get nsx to comment on what goes into his report. I don't know how he comes up with the final numbers and whether they include material merged, deleted or moved after the initial post across all the FT forums.
Jun 24, 2015, 1:32 pm
#36
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Then there is the fact that compared to the benchmarks of BA, UA and even DL, Travel News is, statistically speaking, a rounding error's difference from gaming loyalty and Cuba.
That's why this focus on metrics is so misguided: in Lilliput even a midget is tall.
Decisions ought to be guided by best practices and a strategic vision, not metrics lacking benchmarks.
And, again, I find that gaming loyalty lands squarely in the vision and best practice of what FlyerTalk ought to be.
Jun 24, 2015, 1:35 pm
#37
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and its subpages.
I don't know if the thread count includes redirects (pointers to moved threads).
Jun 24, 2015, 1:51 pm
#38
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and, this is the moment when I realise this entire "issue" is all my fault.
If I would just start one new compelling thread each week (in Gaming Loyalty Programs), this wouldn't even be up for discussion. Considering that there is a ton of interesting "casino loyalty stuff" out there (more interesting, than the "New Delta Tumi Amenity Kit" thread I started in the Delta forum yesterday...); I could have easily avoided all of this angst.
Damn me for spending more time over the past year+ on non-gaming miles+points.
Jun 24, 2015, 3:39 pm
#39
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Jun 24, 2015, 3:53 pm
#40
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I agree.
and, this is the moment when I realise this entire "issue" is all my fault.
If I would just start one new compelling thread each week (in Gaming Loyalty Programs), this wouldn't even be up for discussion. Considering that there is a ton of interesting "casino loyalty stuff" out there (more interesting, than the "New Delta Tumi Amenity Kit" thread I started in the Delta forum yesterday...); I could have easily avoided all of this angst.
Damn me for spending more time over the past year+ on non-gaming miles+points.
and, this is the moment when I realise this entire "issue" is all my fault.
If I would just start one new compelling thread each week (in Gaming Loyalty Programs), this wouldn't even be up for discussion. Considering that there is a ton of interesting "casino loyalty stuff" out there (more interesting, than the "New Delta Tumi Amenity Kit" thread I started in the Delta forum yesterday...); I could have easily avoided all of this angst.
Damn me for spending more time over the past year+ on non-gaming miles+points.
Would Mr. Leo be willing to assume your self-imposed duties to post more often in the Gaming Loyalty forum? Perhaps in exchange for a promise of even more frequent pampering in the AMS KLM lounge? And more cute photos of the this posted on FT? He is a casino hound, isn't he?
Jun 24, 2015, 4:30 pm
#41
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I don't think there's a lower limit if there's no other reasonable place for the threads. That's the case for the Antarctica forum.
Jun 24, 2015, 5:33 pm
#42
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Jun 28, 2015, 5:26 pm
#43
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Jun 28, 2015, 5:42 pm
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Jun 28, 2015, 6:00 pm
#45
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