By your logic, we should get rid of OMNI, TBuzz, all the "Travel with..." forums, etc. Afterall, travelling with children is not necessary to discussing miles and points, so we should get rid of that forum.
Actually that's not what I said. This is not the first time you have tried to put words in my mouth, and I would appreciate if you wold refrain from it.
I don't see how adding more smilies detracts or prevents you from discussing miles and points.
Intellectual honesty alert. I actually said:
Originally Posted by ClueByFour
(FWIW, I'm firmly against avatars, as it's going to create a whole slew of work for the mods that is completely unnecessary to the idea of miles and points).
I specifically said avatars, you cut up my quote and then insinuated I was talking about smilies. It's intellectually dishonest, and I do not appreciate it. You then employed another very common
logical fallacy of debate (slippery slope) and insinuated I'd want to close a bunch of forums. Can you explain to me (and others) why you chose that course of action?
Now, to your point (such as it is): as a member, I'm happy that we have "travel with xxx" and "travel technology" and such. If OMNI were to shut (Again), I would not be terribly upset but don't feel strongly enough to lobby as such.
To your second point about the smilies: Randy has already addressed this: they are abused in ways that do nothing except incite animosity and contribute to the
noise factor on FT with the current smiley set. I am a fan of
signal and volunteer my time to help enhance FT's
signal to noise ratio: as such, I'm pretty sure that adding extra smilies will lower that ratio. I don't want that to happen.
And I'm certain it (S/N ratio falling) will happen with
avatars. (bolded to deter those compelled to take out of context)