Originally Posted by
Spiff
I'm not going to presume to speak for him, but I'd really need to see a huge potential negative dividend for me to advise him to change his mind on such a matter. Like it or not, this isn't a pure democracy - there are going to be some aspects of FlyerTalk, a private internet bulletin board, that will be implemented by the owners/hosts of this bulletin board without taking a sample of the mood of the community.
I'll stop beating around the bush and ask why Randy didn't simply stop the one user (who's handle ends in k) who's actions seem to be what got a vocal minority asking about OMNI & post counts.
As
jenbel said so well in another thread, many features that benefit everyone have been taken away because of the misuse of only a few. FT should be adding features, that make the customers happy. It puzzles me that controls (ie: technical limits on consecutive posting) or discipline for the abuser(s) wasn't implemented before the recent pulling of post counts.
Randy is human after all and is allowed to make mistakes. Of course, we still love him and appreciate everything he's done for us. But one hopes those advising Randy can or have raised the above questions in context of
both "customer experience" and the motion on TB's table.