Is the Travel forum really a good idea?

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citanul,

Generally speaking you're gonna have three kinds of threads, to which you generally referenced:

- questions about certain places, asking for advice, trip reports with pics from said places, etc.

- near future, short trips to places, i.e. "what to do in XXX for a night"

- really dumb, poorly constructed threads about some place that warrants no response due to poor effort.

I guess group one is fine in Travel. The problem I have is group two and so many of the time-critical, user-reliant threads being locked or shipped off to Travel, and as importantly users' probable confusion over where to post (grunching oddjob - "well I mostly post in OOT but I'm taking a trip...where do I post this in order to comply with the rules?").

If I had to boil it down the Travel forum in and of itself isn't a killer, but using it as a catch-all for trips to cities is a bad idea and detrimental to various communities.