Originally Posted by
lo2e
I care and thank the TB for ruminating on this topic. But what I'd care to see is to have post counts actually mean something significant, which is why I asked in an earlier post what post counts actually mean and if/why they're important to FT. This proposal seems to say that post counts are totally insignificant, and I guess I'm not sure if that's the right message to be sending if they're going to continue being placed on our posts.
From my perspective, post counts are only meaningful in broad terms:
Less than 200 posts? Ok, that tells me you are either a newbie or a lurker (depending on your join date).
200-10,000 posts? That tells me you are an average FlyerTalk user.
>10,000 posts? That tells me you are either an old-timer or you have too much time on your hands (or, in some cases, both!).
>25,000 posts? That tells me you pretty much have no life.
So, really, is there a major difference between having 3,000 posts and having 6,000 posts? Not to my mind.
That being the case, why do I care if you spend most of your time here in Lounges, OMNI or in hotel and airline program threads as it's such a vague indicator to start with.
That being the case, I see no reason to single out any forum here as being not worthy of being counted. Even we OMNI trolls are FlyerTalkers every bit as much as the Lounge Lizards and the Box People are! ^