I'm not taking up the position. I can't speak for the other 8 TB members.

May I ask why?

As I may have mentioned earlier in this thread, I started a thread in our private forum in March to discuss this issue. And I bumped it again about a month ago.

The thread stalled out in early June and there hasn't been any further commentary on the issue.

Without divulging any actual numbers or naming names(and we haven't even taken a straw poll yet), let me just say that there is not currently overwhelming support for this issue among the current TB.

Not interested. This is a place to primarily discuss miles and points.

Ok, if that’s what you feel the purpose of FT is, then why do you take part in threads in Omni since they add no value to this site.. Unless Omni severs a purpose, then shouldn’t it be viewed the same as rest of FT, or be shut down?

Omni is a diversion, not a purpose. I spend most of my time elsewhere. When did I say "no value"? Those are your words, not mine.

When you say "This is a place to primarily discuss miles and points" you are basically saying anything that doesn't fall into either category means noting, that is how i interpreted it.

IF you are saying it a diversion, then why are lounge threads or threads that are off topic to Miles and Points allowed to be counted when OT threads are not in Omni and you as the TB president, shouldn't you be either implementing or devising a plan to roots out FT of such diversions as they serve no purpose?

Sorry, I'm just not that concerned.

The software doesn't have the capability to count posts in one thread and not in the other within the same forum. Forum content is the moderators' purview.

If you were to allow post counts in all of FT, then one doesn't have question as to why moderators allow threads that belongs in Omni be allowed elsewhere. That’s my take on it and a major reason I started this thread. I respect your views and I hope another TB member might view it the way I and others see it, and perhaps will start up the debate and hopefully put it to vote.

I'm not seeing where you're getting the idea that having a "primary" focus means everything else is "nothing". Can't there be a secondary, tertiary, etc focus?

Putting it to a vote with the current TB composition is an invitation to have it fail and creating a voting record that delivers no real change.

Perhaps consider making this topic an issue during the next TB election campaign season -- or better yet, consider a run for TB -- and then perhaps there will be some motion in this direction.

Very well said on all counts ^

Some TB members have been on vacation during June (including me) & early July, which may be one reason some discussions haven't moved forward. Note I am not speaking for other TB members & reasons why discussions haven't moved forward, but just offering up a possible explanation. When folk are back we can potentially discuss again.

FWIW - I'm supportive of Omni posts counting.

Cheers.

Just let OMNI posts count when you reach a threshold of posts in other threads, for example 1,550 posts is as a good a number as any (1,551 now I guess). :D

That's actually a brilliant idea IMO, but I'm not sure if the software has that capability to allow posts to count for some and not for others. If that capability is not there, the only way to make your idea work would be for moderators to manually take away posts from those who haven't reached x non-OMNI posts, and I wouldn't wish that job on anybody.