Thank you, Randy. Excellent decision. ^

The reason I came back to this forum for the first time since the "Reputation" contretemps is that I was wondering why my post count seemed to be "stuck" over the past two days. What can I say, it was the Feast of the Assumption (15 August), and I had a few things I wanted to get off my chest about a putative denial of Communion.

It is the nature of Flyer Talkers to "game" the system, whether as to Points, Miles, reputation points, or post counts. It is human nature, and particularly attention-to-detail frequent-flyer nature.

Your fix "solves" one part of that loophole, a loophole taken advantage of, actually, by some of our best participants and most helpful members.

The remaining question is whether to allow the intellectual elite (or creative ones, computer experts, or simply obsessed) among us -- I plead guilty to the latter as to reputation (!) -- to keep their ill-gotten gains.

I'm sure adjusting our point totals to exclude OMNI retroactively would not be a major, costly project, but could be done simply with relatively few programming keystrokes.

To promote the essential mission and focus of Flyer Talk, namely Points and Miles, and to further fundamental fairness amongst all participants, I recommend -- even at the possible loss of 20% or more of my own posts -- that prior OMNI posts be eliminated from the postcount.
Whatever you decide, Randy, thanks for listening, and thanks for all the blessings you provide to so many of us.

Peace.

^^^

This assumes that people post on OMNI not for the enjoyment, but to inflate their post counts. After all, post counts do actually mean something, right?

No, they don't.

That is why I was surprised when jfe quoted my post and said "you people take this way too seriously."

I specifically said I would have made that suggestion "if I really thought that the post count meant anything."

Oh, well. I guess jfe's shoe is just fitting too well.

I wish the post restriction was removed from SPAM. It was my favorite place. I am a person who values MyPoints, easy United miles and a random free samples/magazines. I also posted things I found and helped someone get an iPod and Flat Screen.

Tonight was the first time I ventured out of the Miles & Points section. Omni seemed like a cool place where you do not know what the next topic was going to be about.

Welcome to the dark side, Amanda.

With all due respect to the OP, focus on post counts is puzzling to me. I've seen people on FT with very high posts counts act in a derisive manner a lot of the time, and I've seen people with very low post counts operate in the same manner. So can someone help me understand the fixation on "post count"?

My preference for judging someone's "value" to the community is to focus on what the person posts, not how many times they've posted.

So again, what's to gain by tinkering with a number?

Randy agrees with the OP, and feels there is something to gain it seems.

Clearly. I'm not questioning the decision. My question focuses more on why people put so much value into the number.

Again, I think what you post is much more important that how many times you've posted. Hence my puzzlement (and bitterness, I guess)...

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

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. ^