Originally Posted by
ClueByFour
"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?
This sort of action does generate some disenfanchisement feelings for me.
I know you keep discounting this as only a posts issue but yet that argument can hold weight from either side of the table. I fail to see how arguing it from the "removal of OMNI posts" side carries any more weight than from the "all posts should count equally" side.
Just more rhetoric...
Originally Posted by
ClueByFour
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.
I dont see the argument that we want OMNI treated differently than the rest of FT. In fact we are arguing that we would like OMNI treated exactly the same as the rest of FT (WRT to posts counting, post-padding, etc...)
OMNI is no different than any of the rest of FT other than it is a catch all for threads that dont relate directly to travel. That being said I'm still trying to grasp how the majority of postings in Travel Safety and Security (or the TSA bashing thread as I call it) have anything more to do with traveling than OMNI does.
I'm all for one standard that all threads in FT are judged on but by removing post counting from OMNI there is the creation of a double standard, which really causes me feelings of disenfranchisement.
Im not calling for OMNI to be allowed to go unchecked but am questioning why we are using a bomb to solve the problem when something more along the lines of a surgeons scalpel would more than fix the problem.