Originally Posted by
hiyo
No. I am firmly against this unless there is some acknowledgment of the ratio of actual travel related posts, as in:
1099/9999 where the first number is travel relevant posts and the second number is total posts including Omni.
If this passes, I will consider it yet another dilution of the FlyerTalk Travel community, ala no relevant travel post count requirements for posting in Coupon Connection.
I know and like members who are frequent Omni posters, and I have posted there occasionally myself, but really, what's the point of counting Omni posts? Why not just do away with post counts entirely?
Here's an idea: If you pass this, will you please also give members the option to disable seeing post counts? Ignore post count? Like ignore user and ignore signatures?
The issue, at it's core, is not about post counts.
It's about counting some off topic posts and not others. It's completely inconsistent.
Randy one day decided not to count Omni posts any longer and poof - it happened. No input from the talk board or membership. They just stopped counting.
However, contests, birthday threads, and lounge threads, which are all OT continue to count.
I actually couldn't care less if counts were removed altogether.