Are bloggers ruining Milepoint????

MileMonster-- your first post on Milepoint is to draw buzz/discussion about another bulletin board’s threads about credit card promoting blogs when your screename, logo, and signature are all promoting your own credit card referral blog?

That's a brilliant marketing tactic, but hopefully you'll embrace the MP community spirit of sharing knowledge here, and not simply merely siphon off what you can learn.

Welcome to MilePoint.

Thanks!

No, they're not.

I'll repeat something I said in that other place.

I don't see the point of whining about the "good old days"- if anything luxury travel is far more accessible now than it was back then. To paraphrase something Auntie Mame might say, we're at a banquet and people would rather complain and starve than dig in. No, we won't see Chateaubriand on JFK-DEN flights again, and the Discover America deal isn't as much fun as it used to be. But things are still pretty good, even if those cursed bloggers are killing deals, and there's an industry of travel consultants competing with me for limited first class redemptions...

People always say that, but information, being non-sentient, doesn't want anything. And even if it does, why the heck should we care what it wants? My Milepoint, e-mail, and bank account passwords may want to be free, but screw them! They're staying locked up tight in my brain.


and on that sticky note I keep hidden in my desk drawer...

Well, you just went ahead and proved that however unusable, words that transfer information just can't contain themselves and spill all over the place.

And while you are locking stuff up in your head, someone is unlocking the same stuff on a server far, far away. Can't win, sorry.

MilePoint is way too relaxing to be ruined by bloggers.

Bloggers ruining milepoint? Ha, why would they, blogger can post here if they want, but I am not a blogger. I am a poster, a visitor, a guest. A bloggers writes on a blog, not a forum.

Must be a competitor? Did you mean bugger or blogger?

This thread gives a great example of how bloggers are contributing to the frequent traveler community - Club Carlson tried to get out of honoring a post they made on FB, but Ric at Loyalty Traveler was able to get in touch with the program and get them to honor reservations made before the 15th. Here's a direct link to Ric's post.

One could also argue that the bloggers helped create the PR problem. Some latched onto the original Facebook comment and started promoting the idea that pre-existing bookings would count even though the T&C said "no." Now, while they were only reporting what they read elsewhere from an official source, I think it was also jumping the gun to assume Radisson would violate its own T&C. Some people may have made bookings that they would not otherwise have made. It would have been safer to encourage people to wait despite what was said on Facebook, or at least to only book refundable reservations before the promotion went live.

That, and if I read the terms correctly, those that had pre-existing bookings are more likely to be at an advantage in being the fist 20k/50k users. So I am bitter

Though they were leaked T&Cs that we not official either.......so, we had non-official terms and what seemed like an official company statement that some blogs did reference. It all worked out in the end, but it was a bit of mess in the interim.

I am not trying to point fingers here. I only meant to say that the same publicity that fixes problems can also cause them.

You missed the VERY important point that Club Carlson reps told Ric (Loyalty Traveler) on May 10 that pre-existing reservations would be honored. The Facebook note was only one way the promise was made.

Very true, don't want to get back into this mess too much again (as I am very thankful it is now resolved), but I'm not sure I would say publicity caused the problem. I think bad info caused the problem. Still, very glad it had a happy ending.

If you're referring to me being a competitor, I am not since I don't currently have a blog of any sort. Wasn't sure if your comment was in reference to me or to MileMonster?

I was a supposed to be a sarcastic interpretation of the word blogger spelled similar to bugger..........not meant for either of you.

Ah ok.

Would have been clearer to me if you merely said: "Did you mean bugger or blogger?" instead of both "Must be a competitor? Did you mean bugger or blogger?"

I'm aware of the terms of bugger in British English, and also of your humor.

The term “bugger” is used in different ways in various regions of the world. In some areas, abugger is someone who is distasteful or displeasing, and the word is usually used as an epithet, as in “that bugger can't get anything right.” Other regions have slang in which the world is used affectionately and in a friendly way, as a generic term for a man or boy. “Bugger” is also used as a verb, to add further confusion to the matter.

American English could be booger!

I am not sure what the confusion would be there, as it actually goes back to the origins of the word which is far less PC than what your original explanation. Of course, the confusion can be the extent to which you mean it