Originally Posted by
Counsellor
Of course they are. Put the lounge threads over there, too. And any other threads designed to pad posts without providing substance -- if they *really* have any use, people will follow them over there.
(If the posts aren't counted, the lounge threads would die in a week, I'd bet.)
We went over that as an example of the double standard of counting posts or not counting them.
The lounge-ites went into full tizzy over it.
Hence, making Omni posts count seemed to be the only way to go so all off-topic posts are treated the same.