Honestly, I think all of us on the forums have a heightened sense of how important we are. Sure if a story makes i to DDMS and to the other blogs it MAY get attention, bur I highly doubt the CC companies are actively monitoring any of the forums. They know what we know, they know about churning, and for whatever reason they decide to add new methods of it. If and when it goes away it will not be because there's a 200 page thread on FT or here. It will be because they make a business decision to end it. There are at the absolute highest maybe 1,000 dedicated mile earners here (probably less than 200, but im being generous), and maybe 10X that on FT and other sites. They don't really care what we do when posting online. If it loses them real money then they'll change it, but not because they are reading all our posts.
My 2 cents...