I just find it strange that on a thread about post counts most of the posters have thousands of 'em already.

I find this an interesting concept. What are the requirements anyway? (I know I should probably try to find it on my own)

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I second to the motion/idea for on/off topic count. Maybe we can have a FT poll on forums that are on- and off-topic. So the FT board can have the final say on this issue.

On a personal note, if someone is really (aggressively) paddling the post count in order to gain the secret privileges, it should be easy for the moderator to spot the plot and take proper action/sanction, I think.

And, again I say, YOU CANNOT SPEND POST COUNTS!!!!!

I would say that we should not only do away with Post counts, but in all fairness we should also do away with Kellogg�s counts, General Mills counts (including Count Chocula) and Quaker Oats counts.

Yes, I would say all of the above, but I do not want to do so, for I would risk gaining the unwanted reputation of being a cereal killer...

I think we should always Count Cholula posts.

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Exactly.

Personally, I see no reason to get rid of post counts. It's interesting for me to come across a username I've never seen and say, "wow, that person has thousands of posts, but I've never seen him before" or "hey - there's a new member - welcome!"

A la TripAdvisor, I think we should add a "Did you find this post useful?" box to each post. For each "yes" vote, we can add 1 post to that poster's post count; for each "no" vote, we can deduct 1 post. We can even add incentives, such as for every 25 votes, the poster receives/loses 1000 bonus posts.

If we see a poster with 1,000,000+ posts, we know we are in the presence of a FlyerTalk Master and should read carefully. If a poster has a really low count, or, heaven forbid, a NEGATIVE post count, we can ignore him altogether. Then each anniversary we can have a "post count" party in which we celebrate the posters with the most impressive post counts amid much fanfare and unrestrained frivolity. The following day, with our migraines at their peak, we can excommunicate all posters with negative post counts amid much hissing and booing. And pyrotechnics.

I propose we implement this new system on the post following this one.

Say what??

I'd have to give this reply a NO then...

We used to have a "reputation"feature that worked like this, but unfortunately some childish members were going around "dinging" (that is, giving bad marks) to other members because they didn't like the other person's politics or opinions on FF miles

So the feature was turned off.

This system sounds good in theory, but never works out in practice. There will always be people who abuse their power to rate a post.

Ka-ching!

Just to keep FT interesting, I say we bring anonymous reputation and thread ratings

Otherwise, how boring this board would be, full of pleasantries, people being nice to each other, especially newbies, don't mind answering the 10,000,000,000,000,000,000th question about the AA challenge, everybody understanding that Expedia had the right to cancel an erroneous rate, and no black helicopters, star chambers, super secret batcaves, OBB, etc, etc, etc.