Originally Posted by
Cholula
In theory this sounds good.
The problem is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to force members to make quality posts.
So the "counting" posts might be nothing more than "I agree", "^ ^" or "
"
As tempting as it sounds, I don't think we can legislate how a member contributes to FT.
I agree post-padding is an issue, but IMHO a small one. The change I propose would deal with a relatively small number of people (those who start off strong on FT but then stay just for CC). I don't think it would be too hard to catch most instances of post-padding and deal with them, if the number of required annual posts is high enough.
This is certainly not fool-proof, but then the current requirements are not fool-proof either. However, they are quite useful. My proposal would just give a higher degree of certainty, not 100% but higher, that CC is restricted to active members of the community.