On the 3 year anniversary of my joining FT and 4K posts later and umteen CC trades, gifts, or recipients of gifts later, I must say I think this is a LOUSY idea. I know for a fact of a FT'er who has been here as long as me but has very very few posts, many of you know this person though. Under Mary's proposal this person could not have made any exchanges of which some were for what I consider pretty valuable stuff (based on what I see traded or gifted on here). In addition, many of my exchanges are not made with YGM, I don't do that, why? just b/c I don't like too, I've still been able to complete many exchanges under these terms. I agree also that many newbies can offer up quite a bit of coupons etc. Some may even offer them up first, some may realize that gee, once they receive something that they will join in the giving, or others may just benefit greatly from mutual exchanges with newbies. Not much is going to stop those who want to cheat us out of a transaction. Whos to prevent them from signing up with some bogus email addy, post YGM 250 times to the same thread, or in omni and then stiff you. Post counts means absolutely zero. It is the most meaningless piece of information on FT including the crap thats in Omni. Length of time on here is probably the 2nd biggest piece of useless information on here as well.

There is my one devalued CO mile worth. If we have to register to post on here as well, I'll stop going here as I've stopped going to Omni. In the end who loses, the ones that leave.. b/c they take with them not only information but items of value to other FT'ers.