Do you really believe in the "Blink" stuff? Personally, I do to a certain extent -- I will come to a rapid conclusion in my world but then pass that through my trusted advisers and colleagues to either confirm or rebuke it.

In terms of the post-padding: Could've fooled me. It felt like you were accusing me of exactly that earlier in this thread. I've posted 12 times on threads many times and, really, my post count was the furthest thing on my mind when I did. I was planning on posting once, but something caught my eye and I posted more than once.

But it doesn't matter.

My point was and is this: It was seen as a cool way to post a lot, have those posts count, and try for a trip to AMS. This less than a year after deciding out of the blue that posts in OMNI wouldn't count anymore because people were seen as post padding. This bugged me as someone who really liked OMNI for what it was the past few years (until this year).

I just think OMNI has taken it on the chin way too many times the past few years, despite you saying many times that you are a fan. You've closed OMNI, you avoided appointing moderators to OMNI because you didn't want to subject moderators to that, you eliminated post counts, you split OMNI into two parts, you opened up OMNI to the world, you appointed two moderators to OMNI.

To me, only the appointment of the two moderators have been a positive step recently, but that probably should've been done a long time ago.

I keep seeing you say are a fan of OMNI, but the life has been sucked out of it for many people who used to participate regularly. To those who dislike OMNI, this is probably a good thing. But to many of us who grew to enjoy OMNI, things just aren't the same anymore. I just wonder what was so broken about OMNI on January 1 of this year that you felt such a need to change it into what it is now?

I do have a great deal of appreciation for all that you've put into this site - all I'm asking is that you sit back and examine the changes you've put into place in the past year, TALK to some of the regular participants to get some honest feedback, and think about whether all of these changes are positive and whether there are some that maybe should not have been put into place.

To those who think I am being a bit too rude to our host, I apologize for that, but Randy and I have had a pretty good give and take and, trust me, I don't take anything Randy says personally and I hope he doesn't either.