Originally Posted by
NickB
I am afraid that this is pure rhetoric. I could completely reverse it to the opposite effect: "Would the absence of count hurt you or infringe on your rights? Because you like it, it should be imposed on others who find it distateful."
See, I don't think that either your version or mine says anything meaningful. Just a succession of words or formulae without substance. Empty discourse.
Call it rhetoric, call it whatever you want. I'm advocating freedom of expression (count of posts) while you are advocating restriction of one method of expression. The idea of "imposing" a post count on users is hardly the same as taking away the one metric we currently have. Doing so would have an (albeit minor) adverse affect on the user experience. Anyone who signs up for FT signs on knowing their posts count is displayed. Will less people join FT because it may remove post counts, I doubt it. But why remove a feature if it's not causing harm or imposing on another's freedom of expression? Even
jenbel has lamented that we've
taken away features rather an added them.
I agree with
majorwibi's point that removing counts is similar to changing the rules in the middle of the game. Let alone the message it sends that OMNI is somehow "less" important because posts there no longer count.