A Plea to the site admin

bradders1983

Please, for the love of all things holy, can we start a new Coronavirus sub-section within the Overseas/Holidays forum and move all the threads (most of which are a) the same thing, or b) needlessly worrying about things months down the line) into it?

Yes I realise the irony of starting this but this section of the forum is being swamped by thread after thread of repetition.

Cheers.

Pollycat

bradders1983 said:

Please, for the love of all things holy, can we start a new Coronavirus sub-section and move all the threads (most of which are a) the same thing, or b) needlessly worrying about things months down the line) into it?

Yes I realise the irony of starting this but this section of the forum is being swamped by thread after thread of repetition.

Cheers.

I get your point but I really doubt 'site admin' will read this.

Have you contacted one of the MSE mods direct? Maybe Callum who's started a couple of threads on this board?

Or pm'd one of the board guides?

Aylesbury_Duck

Many questions are from people who would rather post here than read their policy terms to see what they're actually covered for.  They all seem to think their situation is unique and not covered by general advice, as well.

bradders1983

Pollycat said:

bradders1983 said:

Please, for the love of all things holy, can we start a new Coronavirus sub-section and move all the threads (most of which are a) the same thing, or b) needlessly worrying about things months down the line) into it?

Yes I realise the irony of starting this but this section of the forum is being swamped by thread after thread of repetition.

Cheers.

I get your point but I really doubt 'site admin' will read this.

Have you contacted one of the MSE mods direct? Maybe Callum who's started a couple of threads on this board?

Or pm'd one of the board guides?

I thought a public plea would do better, the "site guides" or whatever they are called will clearly see this and hopefully do something.

heatherw_01

Moving to site feedback for the mse team to see. I have also brought this thread to their attention.

Board guides cannot make new forums, this is for the forum team.

Westin

Good points and suggestion.

I would dearly like Board Mod's to monitor and quickly merge threads. I have tried to politely suggest to new posters with similar questions to read the MSE article, read the existing main threads and post questions on one of those two threads if they have not found an answer to their question.   On one recently I then had a Board Mod implied afterwards to the OP that it was fine to open a new thread to ask the question.  Head banging moment.

It is getting out of control and really difficult to offer suggestions and help to posters. A mix of laziness to read the MSE guide and other posts. I also am getting frustrated by a large number of posters asking for information, receive it and not updating their story which could benefit others in the same circumstances.  How many have recently said they are calling their travel insurer, airline, tour operator to ask about a certain issue.  How about updating one of the two main threads after gaining that information? It just might save someone else having to go through the same process.    

Mini-rant over.

onwards&upwards

bradders1983 said:

Please, for the love of all things holy, can we start a new Coronavirus sub-section within the Overseas/Holidays forum and move all the threads (most of which are a) the same thing, or b) needlessly worrying about things months down the line) into it?

Yes I realise the irony of starting this but this section of the forum is being swamped by thread after thread of repetition.

Cheers.

Problem with that is the ‘main’ page would be dead, nobody’s planning travel right now!

bradders1983

onwards&upwards said:

bradders1983 said:

Please, for the love of all things holy, can we start a new Coronavirus sub-section within the Overseas/Holidays forum and move all the threads (most of which are a) the same thing, or b) needlessly worrying about things months down the line) into it?

Yes I realise the irony of starting this but this section of the forum is being swamped by thread after thread of repetition.

Cheers.

Problem with that is the ‘main’ page would be dead, nobody’s planning travel right now!

You are still getting the same question being asked multiple times, new thread each time.

As for not planning travel, speak for yourself. I booked a holiday last week for next February.

MSE_Stephen

We now have a temporary board under Overseas Holidays & Travel Planning

Covid-19 Coronavirus Travel Chaos Help & Info

bradders1983

MSE_Stephen said:

We now have a temporary board under Overseas Holidays & Travel Planning

Covid-19 Coronavirus Travel Chaos Help & Info

About time, but you may want to move all the threads into it.

heatherw_01

bradders1983 said:

MSE_Stephen said:

We now have a temporary board under Overseas Holidays & Travel Planning

Covid-19 Coronavirus Travel Chaos Help & Info

About time, but you may want to move all the threads into it.

The MSE team moved a few and I have moved some more, although there were a LOT of threads so some may have been missed.