Thanks for the walk down memory lane, Counsellor. Made my morning thinking about bandwidth limitations! Ah, FlyerTalk via dial-up...forums taking 10 seconds to load.... :)

Your suggestion has some merit. Unfortunately, being pretty severely limited by the vBulletin software Gods, it is technically unfeasible.

Unfortunately, it has been noted that the software doesn't support this option.

But with that in mind, it got me thinking a little "out of the box" for a moment. What if there were two separate bulletin boards created. One called Flyertalk.com and one called OMNItalk.com. I would think that two separate counts could easily be maintained then. I would think that "links" from one to the other could easily be created to make the separation fairly transparent to users in each (i.e. OMNI could still be in our forums list just like today, but it is really a link to OMNItalk.)

Of course that would mean everyone would need two ids (one for each board.) Either have everyone create a new ID for OMNItalk or possibly see if it is possible to "copy" IDs from Flyertalk to OMNItalk. So there would be hurdles to overcome and I have no idea what if any cost impact that might have for IB, but maybe it wouldn't be much if any.

Well, I'm probably smoking something way too strong here for general consumption, but thought it might be worth at least mentioning since a number of folks have mentioned that having two different post counts would be a good alternative.

That wouldn't address the issue of off-topic posts in the core-FT counting.

You have to remember that Omni WAS for all off-topic posts.

You can't vote on it. Only TalkBoard members can vote on the motion.
OMNI was originally for all off-topic posts. However, the lounge threads and contest threads are in core-FT forums, and count, so if OMNItalk didn't include that, post counts would still reflect off-topic posts.

I'm against it. Status quo is fine

Clearly, many people DO care. That was the whole idea behind the original move to actively DISCOUNT some posts. Further, even now, look how many posts and pages this thread alone has gotten.

It matters. ;) Don't ask me why, though, I don't know why. :D

Well, if you're going to count everything irrespective of substance, then please don't count anything.

If post count has no relationship to contribution, then it really has no legitimate reason to be shown. Why have a metric if it doesn't do anything useful? Just kill post count completely.

(And that may kill most of those nonsense posts, since the posters won't get "credit" for them. If a tree falls in the forest when no one is there, who cares if it makes a noise or not?)

Everyone has a different and somewhat strong opinion on it.

The only thing most people agree on is that it doesn't matter, though. :D

Are you referring to off topic posts or off topic forums (like lounges)? I think the suggested solution could easily handle this by moving the lounges to OMNI.com.

Off topic posts seem to be self policed pretty well and would seem to be a small percentage of total posts, unlike OMNI.

Time Zone, Please?
 

(bolding mine)

May I ask what time zone is it? Central Time, Mountain Time or else?

It also seems every recent TB motion lacks the time zone specification. May I also suggest every TB motion be announced with the specific time zone from now on so members have a better idea when the voting time is up?

Given your post/suggestion is buried pretty deep in this thread, you might want to start another thread specifically for your recommendation. (It might get a bit better traction that way.)

And personally, I see no reason why your suggestion would cause nearly the weeping and nashing of teeth this one has. But I've been wrong before. :D

I think Sharon is merely reporting what she sees. I see 12:42PM and I'm in CST while Sharon's in EST.

Sharon will report the results of the completed votes, I'm sure, when she has a moment. That's her duty as TB VP.

That was suggested and immediately shot down by those who frequent the loung threads. I'm referring to all off-topic, no matter its form.
I think you're incorrect there when you consider contests, lounge threads, misc forums barely relating to travel, etc. People have racked up tens of thousands of posts.

FWIW - Omni is the single most popular forum on FT - bigger than the UA forum (IIRC).

That's NOT what I was asking/suggesting.

I see no need for a new TB thread for this "tiny" issue. If TBers do read and listen to constructive feedback/comment from members in TB Topic Forum, I am sure they know what to do. :)

FWIW, the last motion that specified the time zone was made on November 10th/11th, 2011 (depending on your world/time zone): http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/talkb...rlines-a3.html

Motion passed
 

On January 19, 2012, the Talkboard passed 7-2:

Moved by RichMSN and seconded by kokonutz:

That the TalkBoard recommends that all posts posted anywhere on FlyerTalk (including OMNI, OMNI/PR, and Coupon Connection) count towards a member's post count.

Voting yes: Cholula, goalie, jackal, kokonutz, nsx, RichMsn, SkiAdcock
Voting no: bhatnasx, Spiff