atcsundevil wrote:intotheair wrote:ahj2000 wrote:This is kind of why I haven’t liked the changes to fleet and network threads across this site. Fleet and networks are so critically united. Sometimes you have to discuss the complexities of a network to discuss a type and vice versa.
Grr.
Let’s change all these to the quarterly-full-thread-for-each-airline thing.
Count me in as one of those who preferred having the combined thread as well. It seemed like it was mostly a vocal minority that preferred separate threads. We're only eight days into the new year, and it's already pretty clear how close the two conversations are. As I see it, both threads are similarly linked topics with all the same people posting in them anyway.
I'm in agreement with both of you that it worked better as a combined thread. Honestly though, I got tired of dealing with people who didn't like it constantly pestering us to split it, or the regular questions of, "Why does (airline) get two threads but United only gets one?" I tried to give it enough time to convince people that it was the better choice, but several people refused to give it a chance. Unfortunately now it creates additional work for us having to moderate two threads accordingly, and it eliminates the opportunity for cross discussion between two closely linked discussions. I hate deleting perfectly good posts just because they were posted to the wrong discussion, but I no longer have that option. That was half the reason I combined the threads in the first place was for more free-flowing discussion.
I used to be pretty active in United discussions, but dealing with some users over this issue is the reason I'm largely absent from this topic now. My apologies to everyone who preferred the combined approach, but the vocal few won out on this argument.
In any case, let's please return to discussing the topic, United Network. Please direct any further discussion about the thread arrangement to Site Related.
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It would be very nice to know where the discussion occurred where the "vocal few" won out? Was there ever a post of "we're looking to change it for next year, what are your thoughts?" On first glance, I don't see it in site-related, which per atcsundevil is apparently the forum to have conversations around this issue. For those of us who read this daily (long time reader, hardly ever poster) returning to this model of having to check multiple threads (with lord only knows how many pages by 12/31) is a step back compared to the separate, quarterly threads that we enjoyed last year. Another benefit of the quarterly combined thread was that it was practically featured every day as being one of the most active discussions featured on the home page - you didn't have to dig for it.
Perhaps the feelings of the regular readers of this forum were more balanced than the few who were apparently vocal - somewhere.
Count me part of the regular readers courting the moderators to reconsider this change.