Personally, I would like to see the reputation feature come back.

How about bringing that back and disabling it in OMNI?

Of course, we'd still have the childish members who ding others for childish reasons :rolleyes:

But real, honest member feedback is more helpful than number of posts.

I agree.

Thanks for the welcome RobotDoctor.

I agree that low posters can participate in a positive way. There used to be some very high posters that were only here to stir things up. I am glad they have worked to ban those people.

Amanda, I am trying to be good. Honest. ;)

I agree with you Doppy. ^

Perhaps you should send a PM to those of your fellow moderators who have done so. I would imagine the motivation is somewhat different for each person who does it.

That would imply that I actually care about it. I don't. See my earlier post, I think it is just a number.

When I had few posts I used to think posts were important. Now I have fairly many posts (I'm somewhere between few and many, with a few more than fairly few :) ), I realise its not a terribly important thing. Now I've spent a lot of time on FT, I've also come to realise that quantity doesn't equal quality. :) Unfortunately, this is a learning curve I would guess most new FTers also have to go through...

This is a slippery slope.

What about posts in Newstand, Travel Safety and Security, Off-Topic SPAM offers, Community? They have nothing to do with Points & Miles.

Post count is a feature in just about every IBB out there. There is no reason to differentiate one post over another.

How about only counting useful posts related specifically to miles and points?

No questions/complaints about airline customer service or upgrades or food, etc.

And I think that at least five other members must agree that the post is useful and on-topic. Then you should get credit.

To ensure we're on equal footing, all post counts should be reset to zero. FT members should be randomly assigned to five member teams and the entire FT archive will be split up among those teams to read, rate and credit posts.

Just trying to increase my post count.. ;)

^ ^ ^

I never really did care much about milepost counts, one way or the other.

However, because I am the one who launched the Who Will Be The Next FlyerTalk Member To Post? An OMNI Game thread, I am in favor of the exclusion of increasing one’s milepost count in OMNI because it eliminates the argument once and for all that that thread is used only to pad one’s milepost count.

I have not had a chance to post the latest standings in that thread (let alone answer my private messages and read all of the FlyerTalk threads that I would like to read) just yet, but I have noticed that posting to that thread by FlyerTalk members does not seem to have decreased in the least, which proves that those who post in that thread are not posting there to increase their post count.

Furthermore, even when no prizes were offered in the game (as prizes are currently offered at the end of every quarter to those who score the most points), the thread was still quite popular.

I like to think that FlyerTalk members post to the Who Will Be The Next FlyerTalk Member To Post? An OMNI Game thread simply because they enjoy it. Everyone else is welcome to post to that thread where virtually everything — including miles, points and travel — is discussed.

Beyond this, milepost counts on FlyerTalk really do not matter much to me. However, milepost counts may matter to vampires who fly frequently...

my personal egoistic reason why I post intensively is, that I want to make sure to maintain my OMNI posting priviliges, even when the 'right to post there' one day may be raised to > 20'000 overall posts :p

Now there's a good reason!

Who the heck has the time to do that? I originally came to FT for advice and information, which I still do. There are times when I do not have the time to post for days, even weeks.
I initially assumed that a huge post count meant that the poster was probably very informed and very travel wise.
I have since realised that they probably have a lot of spare time. :D

How right you are ^ if there was a way to remove all Omni posts, past & present, from the overall posting number I'd be all in favor of it :D

I agree, some of the very high post count members have recently added to their post count in other ways than Omni having nothing to do with travel. Generally, ORP is not a travel related forum but a rant forum for some. One poster kept stirring the mess in a topic by posting, posting, posting, posting his rant and creating a real mess there. Now I wonder what does that have to do with travel since the thread was about reputation points.

Why not stop there, let's go to ORP then Spam then Coupon Connection and what ever forum that is not travel related and remove those posts as well. I suppose the people that support this FREE site have nothing better to do.

:D :D ROFLMAO! ^ (this has got to be one of your funniest posts ever!)

This is true. Some of the people that want to remove all the Omni post counts appear to me to have this vanity about post count totals. I say that all posts should count, as all forums are part of FT. I could care less about post count totals because I read posts indiscriminately and care little of post count totals. I do post in Omni and have generated a lot of post count totals there. I know others generate post count there as well. However, some seem to complain a lot on ORP about issues that have nothing to do with travel. Speaking of ORP, this forum has nothing to do with travel so why do post add to our post count totals when we post here.

In agreeing with CameraGuy, if Omni was stripped from adding to our post count, then I say that Spam, Coupon Connection, Phone programs, Discontinued Programs, Newsstand, Itineraries (as this just reports of a person’s travel frequency), TalkBoard Topics, ORP and the Support & Services forums. Then we can get to the real travel related posts.

In agreeing with Doppy:

Oh wait, sometimes a post in a travel related site contains a :) , ^ , :td: , or some other smiley and nothing else. Remove all posts that offer nothing related to travel and is merely a post padding post or rant or whatever.

As we can see, this scenario muddies the waters and makes managing FT more difficult and more problematic. A slippery slope has been cast and I feel that the only way to remove the slippery slope is to count ALL posts on FlyerTalk, regardless what forum the post was made from. The other alternative is to remove all references to post count. I would be in favor of that then true reputation will determine whether a person is travel credible or not. In time, people will make their own decision as to whose opinion is to be valued or not. I have done this and my basis has nothing to do with post count.

How about pay per post?

I would be broke. ;)

[sinister voice]"A penny for your thoughts; a penny for your thoughts."[/sinister voice]

So without OMNI, will we see a rash of endless debate on insignificant topics in the "post-counting" boards.

...or instead of editing we will add another post. But I forgot what I was going to say. :p

I'm not sure if you realize how funny this statement is. :D
I got a good chuckle out of it. Thanks.

Question for the moderators- has the posts per day count in Omni decreased since you made this change?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Excellent question.

We really haven't seen a single change, except for UP.

As the summer holidays are coming to an end more posters are back, and we are actually seeing MORE posts than from when the change was implemented.

Threads that could be considered "post padders" are still seemingly just as active as before.

Therefore, one can conclude that post count meant little to some of us, so called, post padders. The conclusion that can be made is that some of us are really bored. :p

Or have no life ;)

Wait! :eek: I do resemble that remark :mad:

:D

WOW!

That is FASCINATING!

No, I think it is because what some consider "post padding" is just plain good fun to others.

Post counts have been the dicsussion topic for some members for as long as I can remember...

So what is the big concern about post count. From where I sit, it seems more a vanity issue than anything else. Some people say that post count makes a member more credible. I say poppycock and also think some people have a lot of free time on their hands (how can I get some more free time :D ). I have seen some posts from members that have thousands of posts that are anything but credible regarding flying/travel, mine included. ;) Of course Omni posts often lack credibility in that sense. Is it that difficult to read a post and determining credibility instead of reading post count to establish credibility? Post count does not gain a person credibility.

1. I have been busy with other things
2. There is just so much one can ad to the recuring, Bush Lied threads.
:D

Exactly my point. Taking away the post-count earning of OMNI was fine. But I don't really see the benefit of turning this post-count business into a life's work, as some seem to be advocating. I think it's a waste of time.

Expecially since it would only please a couple of members.

I think a couple of evangelists and the dude with 27 posts who started this thread and hasn't been on FT for over a week.

Amazing the power of a newbie :rolleyes:

A wise FlyerTalk member once gave these words of sage advice:

One should be concerned with having each post count rather than be concerned about one’s post count.