First I would like to say thank you to wr_schwab for her/his most intelligent and thoughtful responses. I have never seen you post before and must say that I am impressed both by your insight, and with the restraint that holds you to contain your posts to 1/2 post per day. Even restraining myself, I am almost at three posts a day.

Will you all please note that the actual motion reads:

I seconded the motion because, to me, the wording of the motion invited Randy to enter into dialogue with the TalkBoard to help us better understand his thinking behind the sudden elimination of OMNI post counts right in the middle of our internal debate on the subject.

IMHO, dialogue, interaction, communication and understanding, all the way around (including with and by the TalkBoard, Randy, and the general membership), are crucial to the efficacy of any decisions made by either the TalkBoard, or unilaterally by Randy.

I am not particularly passionate one way or the other about counting post counts, but I am very passionate about the health, growth and development of the FlyerTalk Community. I have been here for a long, long time and witnessed a lot of changes, some good, and some not so very good (even bad), over the years.

As others have mentioned, a knee jerk reaction of eliminating privileges, features, and post counts for everyone, in response to the actions of a few, is not to my mind, the very best solution to any of the problems we encounter as we grow and develop into a serious force for good throughout the world.

I also really try to think in the long term, maybe another 10, 20, 30 or 50 years out, and try to imagine what effects the actions we take today will have on the TalkBoard of the future, and imagine how we can lay a ground work that will well serve FlyerTalk long after Randy and all of the rest of us (except, of course, Lucky9876coins) are gone and forgotten.

Are the actions we take today setting good precedent? Are the actions that Randy takes today setting good precedent? None of us really has a decisive answer to those questions, but as leaders of a very vibrant, exciting and very real international community, these are questions we need to carefully consider before we jump in and make any decisions.

So I personally would very much appreciate any comments that moved beyond post count and politics, and gave feedback on what steps we can take to build a stronger, healthier woldwide community.