Originally Posted by
wharvey
Did the Talkboard talk about whether they would consider other "non-travel" forums to not count? I know that Coupon Connection posts do not count... what about others?
Early on in the discussions, I posted the following on the private forum: "
If we are going to remove them, I would go a step further and remove all Omni, Newstand, and TS&S posts."
However, as
Cholula noted in the other TalkBoard Topics thread:
"
Dov would prefer to include a lot more non-travel forums than just OMNI.
However, there is scant support for this among the current TB Members."
Originally Posted by
Mary2e
Wouldn't it be just as easy to simply pull those threads in where people have thousands of posts and then put them back?
This might be easier than having to deal with exceptions and grandfathering.
Or, better yet, the easiest of all would be to remove the evangelist title all together.
If I recall correctly, the posts were not re-credited because the original game thread was never put back. Instead, it was started up again. Besides, it as
cblaisd posted on the other thread, "
There was one poster today who, in the previous 22 hours, had posted more than 500 times, often once a minute, in one of the OMNI "count" threads." It seems to me that at that rate HOM would be doing nothing but pulling threads and putting them back.
Grandfathering is not a problem according to HOM and as far as the "Evangelist" title is concerned, that is not the only issue. The contention of many posters (and, as I said, I really don't know if it is right) is that seeing a high post count under a member's name lends credence to the belief that he is more familiar with travel, points, and miles than another poster would be.
If that is the case, then it holds true with or without the "Evangelist" title.