Originally Posted by
Dovster
Perhaps they don't -- but the fact that a lot of people are fighting to keep their post counts indicates that they feel it gives them extra status, and on an IBB dedicated to M&Ps, extra status should be reserved for those who know, and share, information on its core subject.
It's never been illustrated for me that this is the aim of the post count and the titles. Is it written down somewhere that the titles are supposed to convey status as based on contributions to miles and points? Things like "Flyertalk Evangelist" and "Flyertalk Legend" don't convey anything to me about knowledge per se, they convey activity. Evangelist says to me that the poster is someone that has been around for a long time and has turned other people on to FT. Whether this hanging around has been in OMNI or United Forum really is immaterial.
If we're going to say that post counts convey status based on knowledge, then more accurate titles would be "Miles and Points Expert," or "Mileage Genius," etc.
Put simply, the titles themselves
convey activity, not knowledge.
This is why I can't cash the check you're writing here.
Now, if you're making a normative argument about the way things "should" be, then that's a different issue. I'm talking about the way things appear to be, from my vantage point.