dcraigen -
I'm a newbie too, but if we're talking about the same thread - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/002296.html - I don't think Flying Dutchman and Leroy11 were "trashing you." After all, they answered your questions and politely asked you to post in the existing threads so as not to annoy others not going on this mileage run or something to that effect - sounds reasonable to me. Also, the two threads have different subjects. This one asks who's actually going to do it - whilst the lllooonnnggg one is a discussion of the actual bonus. Just my 2 cents.