"Disenfranchisement?"

So that I understand: on a frequent flyer bulletin board, not having future posts counted in the "everything else" forum somehow equates to "disenfranchisement?"

What, exactly, are you voting for that's somehow been taken away?

Now, if you are referring to the fact that Randy did not listen to the TB on this issue before (and probably won't this time), you still are not disenfranchised--since neither he nor IB is under any kind of obligation to listen to (much less obey) the whims of the Talkboard.

I'll give you the consistency issue--in fact, I suggest taking post counts out of all non-point/mile forums (with a huge debate over CommunityBuzz) to solve that problem.

But in the larger scheme of things, I don't think you want consistency with OMNI to the rest of FT--if that happened, several hundred thousand posts (and their count) would go up in smoke once all the game threads were deleted (post-padding gets enforced) and a bunch of members would be "on the beach" since it would be moderated in a way more akin to the core forums as opposed to the latitude which Randy personally oversees in OMNI.