Originally Posted by
NickB
No, I am not making any such assumption. All I said is that the topic is one on which there is not, and there has not been, any reasonable dergree of consensus. We have debated this in the past. The debate was lengthy, acrimonious and inconclusive. Randy, for whatever reason, took a particular decision in one direction.
You are missing my point here. I agree with your assessment that this has been an extremely lengthy, acrimonious and inconclusive topic every time it is discussed.
My main point is that a decision was made in 2004 that was never enacted and it wasnt until early 2008 that it was pointed out to Randy that his 2004 decision was never enacted and that certain posters were abusing the OMNI posts counting to gain high post counts, thereby diluting the pool of people who are "FlyerTalk Evangelists" (IMHO). I find it highly curious that when this same discussion occured in 2007 that Randy chose not to act. What changed between that discussion in 2007 and the post in early Feb 2008 which appears to have started us down this path?
The rest of your questions are not applicable to this discussion if you follow where my point was going.