Originally Posted by
as219
The slippery slope argument doesn't hold water here. Wishing FTers a happy birthday can only ever account for so many posts. +1 posts are routinely deleted. Lounge threads, on the other hand, can -- and apparently do -- go on forever. I did a bit of poking around at some of these threads, and let's just say that there are a handful of people for whom more than half of their 20,000+ posts on FT can be found in lounge threads alone.
To the extent FT determines which posts will count based on substance, then these lounge threads need to find a home where posts don't count.
And I completely and categorically disagree with that POV as it draws a distinction between two of what I see as the same kind of post. You can't IMHO say non-travel related posts on Community count because members may make fewer while they won't count on lounge threads on airline forums since
some posters make more. They are all they same to me and FT already has enough lines drawn about access and post count and I wouldn't favor seeing more.