I'm glad you clearly explained yourself since there are couple of so-called "Evangelists" would for sure teach you a hard lesson and speak like they own IHG or a big shareholder of IHG, or pretend like the online-sheriff of this flyertalk website.

Without these annoying "sheriff", you should be perfectly fine and wouldn't even have to explain this. We are all everyday consumers and who doesn't want to get more than what he pays for? As I said before, flyertalk is made for the biggest consumers like us in the travel industries for us to exchange and to share useful information in order for us to get better off / maximum benefits (whether entitled or not), not for someone pretending to be smart and speaking like on the behalf of the president of the hotel chain.