Hey, there's nothing wrong with being a college student, i was one myself (trivia: my first business experience was in college. i bought a refridgerator and smuggled it into the laundry room in my dorm and sold keys to the padlock i put on it so that my fellow students could have local brew and snacks quite handy. The name: Fat City Cold Storage)

I think you'll go far here on FT and elsewhere because of the way you start this. "A long time listener." We need many more like you. As for the post count. As you know, the display of post count is universal among almost all bulletin boards in existance. It's a standard feature of the technology that many of us use. Post count can be misleading and I usually don't even notice it. For instance, I was truly caught in on this post because of the way you introduced the topic. I only noticed later on your post count and by then it didn't matter because i was engaged with reading what you have to say. I'm not sure what we can do within the current limitations of our technology to add or substract post counts by forum structure. I think i was asked something similar before and it was can we discount OMNI posts toward the post total, whereas i am reading that you'd like to see no post count at all viewable when visiting the OMNI forum. This and many other suggestions are how we get better - some will warrant implementation and others will not, but we still need the comments and ideas coming. We're still trying to come to a resolution on this signature line issue. I kind of like them but when it comes to members using them in intents less than the mission statement of FlyerTalk, then it's not much fun.

Bottomline: let me see what the tech guys can come up in research. Now, i warn you in advance (guess i'm feeling a little picked on today....) there is a great chance that i will not answer back on this. It doesn't mean anything personal, it simply means i got tangled up with something else. However, once i hand it off to the tech guys, at least it will be looked in to.

I've got to tell you - as i was writimg this response i got a good feeling about FlyerTalk. My thoughts were along the lines that it's a pretty long distance between where i am in life right now and you as a college student. But that gap in education, work experience and simply years on this earth don't stop at all our ability to share FlyerTalk for what it is. Thanks for making that all so clear for me.

Go 'Dores.....

Randy