Originally Posted by skofarrell
I fully agree. It makes a lot of sense for Randy to use his IT department's time to work on adjusting FT post counts. Much more important than say, something that makes the board work better, generates cost savings for his business, or god forbid, makes money.
I have to agree with
skofarrell, yet again, on this subject. To single handedly target a single forum to eliminate post count seems like more work than the overall benefit. Yes, Omni posters have high post counts. I certainly have added a great many posts on Omni but I do post on travel related topics. I look for post content rather than someone's post count when reading and valuing a topic or post.
As Randy said, "
... 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. ..."
People should read the remarks in posts instead of being caught up with post count totals. I have read many posts from people with very low post count totals that I appreciated and valued to insightful information contained in the post. I have also read post content from people with a high post count that were insignificant regarding helpful information (my posts included
). Omni is part of FlyerTalk and as long as it is, I believe that Omni post counts should be include post count totals. I believe all FT forums should count in post count totals. If people want to eliminate post count for Omni posts, then make the petition to remove Omni from FlyerTalk.