Originally Posted by
ClueByFour
Sure it is--your post count offers a hint as to why you feel as you do--If I had 19152 posts in OMNI, I'd probably feel the same way.
Absolutely! But it has nothing to do with the titles or any like it. I've said, and will reiterate, you can take away all the titles and hoopla as far as I am concerned. What the number represents to me is my participation in this community, OMNI included.
I've offered a lot of damn good info in OMNI if I do say so myself. I think a lot of what I've posted is much more informative than the crap that gets included in CommunityBuzz, Travel Security, Newsstand, etc.
So do I have a vested interest here?
Yes, absolutely!
Now, what's yours?
Originally Posted by
ClueByFour
Randy decided not to count OMNI posts. The Talkboard tried to convince him differently. He stayed his course.
Again this is wrong.
Randy decided to count OMNI post counts. TB tried to convince him differently. They failed.
Originally Posted by
ClueByFour
Let me share some deepter history with you: I moderated OMNI (I don't expect you to know that, as it was before you joined FT). I voluntarily resigned from that post because OMNI had become (and in many ways, remains) a cesspool. Randy shuttered it for awhile, and brought it back with himself as the mod, because it's essentially impossible to "moderate" it in the way that volunteers work. All that happened before the post count thing even surfaced back in '04.
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Look, Randy has done lots of things I disagree with. Occasionally, I've been able to work with him and others to get him to change his mind, but that's not a universal thing. I'd suggest that given his track record and history of being pretty definitive on this issue that there are better places to make a stand. Were I at odds with Randy over an issue that he's treated like the OMNI post counts, I'd drop it. Why badger the guy--it's clearly not going to do any good? YMMV.
Ahhh, so you're an anti-OMNI guy. Got it.
Well at least now you're being honest and forthright with your preconceptions and biases.