So What Is the Point?
Um, I have a question. I'm really confused as to what you all are planning here. Do you really think you can supplant Fodors as a viable travel board for the masses? Sorry, it will never happen. What...
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Hi StCirq --I don't ever see this board in its current incarnation competing with Fodor's in terms of amount of registered members or traffic.That is not why the board was started or what anyone has...
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Good morning everyone I appreciate your post, St Cirq, because those are questions we had to ask ourselves as we proceeded. And the posters on this thread have articulated what we're up to better than...
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Not much more to add here as I think the question has been addressed well. This forum isn't a competition with any other travel site, and it wasn't created to "suck people away" from another site. I...
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Blast. Don't move it again Sally. I've lost my reply thrice.I'm posting as an individual St Cirq; I can't speak for anyone else here. I'm certainly not intending to supplant Fodors, and see this as an...
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What is MY goal here? I'm not sure. I do know that I'm no longer interested in posting at Fodor's. When an editor bans me without warning and then is unable to give me a reason as to what specific...
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I'm not sure anyone can answer what the point is for now and all time. Since this is a new enterprise, it is evolving pretty quickly. I think its origins were in the perceived loss of a community that...
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Well put my "fellow travelers" Please see the newpost in the Housekeeping thread about our new name and domain
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OK, good points all. And NYCFS, I wasn't actively trying to be pessimistic, just feeling around to get some sense of what we're all DOING here. I'm not a big fan of just chatting on message boards - I...
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Thanks StCirq -- and Welcome I know speak for us all when I say we are happy to heave you help us grow safely and sanely!We are "in progress" and while the buck has to stop somewhere, [that would be...
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StCirq,it's a start just seeing familiar monikers like yours on this new board!One other thing to consider about newbies. Aren't we all (or most of us) newbies as to those places we have not yet...
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Let's Cool:Good point. I'm doing a big trip to Umbria this summer and will I'm sure get amazing input from the italophiles here, so in a sense I'll be a newbie for that trip!
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Quote:And NYCFS, I wasn't actively trying to be pessimistic, just feeling around to get some sense of what we're all DOING here.My dear, StCirq, I'm delighted to see the morning offers you a view of...
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It's interresting that all of this happened at the time it did, I was getting quite tired of the same questions asked daily on Fodors so I really hadn't been posting lately. You can only answer "which...
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I posted a reply on one of the deleted Fodors' threads about determining who is the customer.I was a new poster there, and like everyone else, new here. So what is the point? I have two trips I am...
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Well done, LTR! Money not only talks, eventually it jumps up and down and screams, too!
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I hadn't posted here (other than on the roll call thread) until today as I've been on holiday but just wanted to say that for me it's not an either/ or thing.At this point (though I can't predict the...
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And It's not an either or for me. I'm here because the folks I care about are.I'm there because I refuse to let several mean spirited posters take over.
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