Originally Posted by
magiciansampras
If Randy agreed with your proposal, he would have implemented it. Note that you just told me your proposal wasn't just anti-OMNI.
Consider it a start. I'm working on the rest, much to the detriment of my own post count. One of the nice things about being on my side of the fence on this is that it's much easier to defend when one does not, say, have 19k posts (or more than 4 of every 5 posts) in one of the forums in question.
Whenever you want to get back to discussing substantive issues and not your failed motions, please let me know.
How about this: when can we stop claiming this is about "consistency," call a spade a spade, and admit that the whole effort to pin threads in miles/points forums up as "just as OMNI as OMNI" is simply an effort on the part of a vocal minority to continue to run up silly (and meaningless) post counts?
At some point it comes down to a judgment call. No
reasonable person is going to argue with the fact that %95+ of OMNI is not miles/points, and maybe %5 of the threads in miles/points based forums are "OMNI-ish." The rest of this hyperbole is about the ability of a few members to run up insane post counts,
and nothing more.
No reasonable person is going to say that %60-70 of what's in this f(TB) orum has anything to do with miles and points, either. Or techncial issues. Or the others listed in the modest proposal.
Finally, it's divine providence that this (removal of post counts from non-mile/point forums, starting with OMNI) has come to pass, simply because
Dovster and I agree on something.
As I point out in the modest proposal, whacking non-mile/point forums from the post counts (and hopefully retroactively) makes post count a meaningful barometer of sorts when people come to
Flyertalk to get advice on
flying.