Originally Posted by
ClueByFour
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.
Nothing more than
ad hominem. I could give a crap about my individual post count. I have said so before. Randy can reset it to zero for all I care (as long as I have access to OMNI, of course
).
I do care though that my substantive posts in OMNI are deemed unworthy, however.
Originally Posted by
ClueByFour
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?
So let's say we agree on that issue. Why not deal with the problem (the minority that wants to up their post counts) instead of punishing the entire community by saying that their posts aren't worthy?
Originally Posted by
ClueByFour
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.
This I completely disagree with. I think most people have the intelligence to understand that post counts do not convey anything about information; it merely conveys activity.
If I have 30k posts due to the United forum and I wander in to AA, what is my 30k post count a barometer of?
I would almost argue the exact opposite of you: post counts can convey bad information that posters know something when they don't.