Originally Posted by Sink r8

About the "best practice" issues... why can't we start a thread to group these things, and discuss best practices? Anyone who goes to it would obviously be interested in having a civilized discussion about what we can do better. It would be done away from the clutter of this meandering thread, and save room for the kitten pictures.

Part of the problem is that there are so many discussions meandering through this thing, that each interferes with the other. For example, if I was interested in talking about JAL, I have to sift throough the crap about whether one airline was better than other, then sift through Carl's attempts to **** on every sand castle at the beach, then every post that tells me what a wuss I am as a South pilot, then every post that tells me what an idiot I am as a South pilot, it becomes gradually more and more difficult to focus on the important, much less the positive.

Simply put, this thing becomes gradually less manageable, where the thread becomes about itself, and about the mood of the participants (I believe we're currently experiencing the "time of the month" phase for many posters...).

Maybe a couple of the discussions be spun off.

I think Best Practices, Section 6, and JAL are big enough to deserve their own threads.