So I have a question, and I am sorry if this is blunt, it isnt meant to be, but I am not big fan of this "man behind the curtain" thinking, particularly without telling people you are making a change and they are going to lose access in a forum where they had built relationships and visited regularly.

Anyway, my question. Is this in reality going to be a decision not on posts or how long people have been members, but how well the board management feels the posters are complimentary to them? Put more bluntly, if we ask questions and have opinions are we going to end up on a higher requirement on the "sliding scale" than others who are managements buddies?

I totally understand having limitations and guidelines, but this gray area of "it will come to you" seems wrong. YES I know in the end this is a private website and we like it or lump it, but we all have become part of communities here and have some "ownership" if you will (or value to the community if that is a better term) and it seems like as such it would make more sense (and people would take more responsiblity if we had guidelines on what the new rules were.

And YES I get it if you set a post # people are going to just go on a post tirade to get a number, but moderators should be given functionality to close/remove from count the posts that are just filler for count.

JMHO!!!