I Feel Compelled To Answer This......
 

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What is a galactic idiot? Does anyone know? Do they smile a lot?

Is that an OMNI term or "in joke" I am not familar with?

Do I need to use Google to help me on that one? :confused:

Apparently someone that doesn't know how to fix a plane .

Trust me, I know. ;)

stop padding your point count!

Rita

:D ........

I agree! :p


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Anything new here? :confused:

I dunno but if it helps Counselor Troi was an inter-galactic tramp. (It is doubtful that there was even one species with which she didn't have sex in at least one episode.)

I said "unlikely" :p

Again, as I said before, the relationship between posts and reliability/knowledge is not directly proportional, but I still think that there is still some correlation. There might be the odd nutcase (or 10) who have posted lots of stupid things, but I personally have found most of the high posters to very helpful and knowledge in some way or another.

Cheers

I'll use myself as a guinea pig & example.

I found FT in the summer of 1998 when I was at the height of my travelling. I was too intimidated to post anything since everyone posting knew so much & I knew nothing. I sat and lurked during lunch for almost 3 years before getting up the nerve to register & post.

In those 3 years I absorbed almost everything they posted in the programs I used. I earned thousands upon thousands of miles due to what I learned from them. I'm STILL grateful. I also felt I knew each personally though they didn't even know I existed.

I finally registered in 2001. By that time, my travel had slowed down to 2 or 3 trips a year and I didn't have all that much to say, but when I could help, I always did. It hasn't changed to this day. If I see a question that I'm able to answer I do, and quickly. I generally post on the Orlando forum, since that was my first love & the first boards I posted on before FT. I also post quite a bit in Hyatt, with CO coming in second.

FT, in it's 8 year history has evolved as other boards have. The early adopters have become experts and look for the social aspect. On FT it's Omni, on tivocommunity, it's coffeehouse. That's where you find a lot of the old timers who already know all there is to know about the core purpose of the board. People posting more in a social setting on an IBB isn't unusual at all. It happens all the time and it's a natural progession as boards become established.

But that doesn't mean that we don't know what we're talking about. I think I'm on my 3rd or 4th planning assistance for a trip to Disney. You can't see it because it's all been done via PM for privacy reasons. But those people PM'd me based upon my postings and asked for more specific help. I also get quite a few PMs based upon postings in Hyatt, all of which I respond to.

So, yes, I may post alot on Omni, but it doesn't mean that I'm not helpful or don't want to be helpful. It means that I just don't have any questions that haven't already been answered OR that I haven't seen a question that I'm able to answer.

If you want to take post counts away, well, go ahead, but those people who have thousands of posts and are long time members probably have some of the most valuable information. They may not be posting in the core forums, but not from lack of desire. Ask a question & you just may find out.

Please also see...
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...=555158&page=3

LOL! That could keep some of us occupied for a very long time... :D

Cross posting to other threads is VERBOTEN. Randy gets all your miles if you keep doing that. :)

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Darn Oz, I was happy without having to come to this forum in a while until he pointed me out to this thread

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I see nothing new, same thing that has been discussed time, and time again.

Randy made the decision to keep the post counts in OMNI

Here was my prior proposal
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showp...&postcount=124

Well, the Who Will Be The Next FlyerTalk Member To Post? An OMNI Game thread was bound to come up once again as an example sooner or later, especially when a topic such as this is brought up.

Yes, there is a fair share of nonsense posted in that thread, tazi — but have you ever actually read any of it? Have you read the discussions in that thread pertaining to miles, points, travel, advice, recipes, stories, jokes, rants, personal tragedies and personal triumphs, among other things? Do the many friendships and FlyerTalk gatherings which have been generated as a direct result of that thread matter at all?

For the record, FlyerTalk members who have never posted to that thread either have attended or plan to attend gatherings created as a result of that thread, such as in El Paso.

If you take a look at the list of who posted in that thread, it is a virtual Who’s Who of FlyerTalk. Frankly, I am proud of that. I am also proud of the fact that with greater than 70,000 mileposts and the number of unique FlyerTalk members that have posted to it, that thread (or any of its earlier variations) has never required any official moderator action, as it has always been peaceful and friendly.

It has also been proven that when post counts from the OMNI forum — including that thread — did not count towards one’s post count, the amount of posting traffic in that thread remained unaffected.

Regardless, I maintain my opinion on this issue.

Finally, the Who Will Be The Next FlyerTalk Member To Post? An OMNI Game is open to anyone who has access to the OMNI forum, and is welcome to all. Any FlyerTalk member who wants to post in that thread is cordially invited to do so. Anyone who does not want to post in that thread may simply ignore it. It is as simple as that.