Originally Posted by
RichMSN
Once this business (IB/FlyerTalk) is a court of law and I'm a defendant/lawyer instead of a customer/user, I'll consider your quotation the slightest bit relevant.
I'll assume then that you would answer "Yes", "no", and "none"--in that order. I'm going to further assume that nobody will actually take those questions on with a serious tone.
But the salient part of that is indeed "Being a user." There is a single (And simple) recourse if one disagree's with Randy on this (or any other issue). It involves not sending any views or revenue at FT. My hypothesis is that people won't leave over OMNI post counts, those that would are not going to impact either the ability of IB/Randy to generate content and/or monetize said content, and that any insinuation to the contrary will almost invariably come from someone whose post count will (or has) taken a significant reduction due to Randy's decision.
I simply don't get your last sentence. Kind enough? I just don't get it. Maybe someday FT will be considered a business by everyone rather than some "gift from a benevolent host." I'm sure that's how IB sees it.
I'd bet money that the IB folks are not the least bit worried about what's going to happen to their franchise if Randy does not capitulate to the really vocal minority and count OMNI posts.
However, I'm open to ideas: if you would, can you quantify (in $$$ or lost content in-RE: miles and points) what will be lost if OMNI posts are not counted?
Since I've been on FT, people have occasionally abused Randy's kindness and patience. This (in my mind) qualifies as one of those times. YMMV, of course.