I am not going to reply individually as I don't necessarily want to focus too much on individual comments/observations but I will say that the TR board does have an index page so whether a TR is done as one thread or several, they should be easy to find. Granted, I am not always on the ball with creating an index but there is nothing to stop the TR poster creating their own index, which I can link to the index thread. I am one who prefers the TRs in separate posts as I find it very hard to follow all the comments on a single thread and I will continue to post my TRs that way, and I know others who prefer to do it that way too. Which brings me neatly to the next point - if you were to merge the boards (which, by the way, I think is a really BAD idea), it only takes 2 or 3 people to be posting separate threads for their TR updates and planning questions will quickly slip down the page. One thing I'm incredibly proud of on our UK forums is that it is very rare for a post to go unread/unresponded to, meaning people don't feel unwelcome or unloved. I personally think it is quite unfair that some people have commented that they never bother to go to the TR board and yet, I suspect that those people would be the first to complain if nobody was reading or commenting on their 'live' TR. If anybody has ever written a full-blown trippy,t ehy will know just how much work it can be. Personally, I do it as much for my own posterity (to have something to look back on to remind me) as much as to assist other people with their planning so I don't actually mind too much if people aren't reading/commenting but it is a lot of work and for people to put all that effort in and have people not responding, it can be quite demoralising. Which brings me finally to my last point....how many 'live' TRs are started but then abandoned because people realise they don't actually want to give up their holiday time to write every day. Or not actually finished until long after those people return home. I am not trying to say that those TRs aren't helpful to others but they are still TRs whether live or not and are of no more use posted here than they are on the TR forum, other than they get more 'views'. As far as I'm concerned, we have a Trip Reports board and that is where TRs should be posted, whether they are live or not. The rest of the boards run that way - when something is not right for the forum it is posted on, it gets moved. Wayne has already said that we, as Moderators of the UK boards, don't necessarily agree which is why we tend to leave them where they are posted instead of doing what we should do and moving them. The only possible compromise that I can think of would be to have the TRs forum as a sub-forum to this one, however we would have to get agreement from the DIS admin for that and I'm not sure that they would agree. Sorry if it sounds like I am being difficult but, as you have already seen from the few comments on this thread, opinions differ greatly and I don't honestly think we will find a solution to please everybody.
