Same type of protest for me.

There are a few problems with the current rules:

1) even if I only want to give something away, I cannot. I believe the post limit should only apply to people who take from the community, not give.
2) a post limit encourages people to post without having anything to add. For example, people who has time to play those posting games in OMNI will undoubtedly have much higher post counts.
3) if a person decides to give something away, it should be him deciding who gets it. What kind of arbitrary cut-off is 100 posts? The giver has the right to condition their offers (i.e. "only people with 100 posts can have this"), similar with those who are considering responding to requests for stuff. If they think the requester is too "young" to the board, they can simply refuse to give anything - or, better yet, ask them to participate more before you give it to them.

What we need is some sort of transaction record. Taking a cue from AnandTech (www.anandtech.com) forums where they have a for sale/trade/for free forum for various tech stuff, they make use of a feedback system that is similar to ebay's system.

Sure people can forge new accounts, but the poster themselves can make a judgement based on who is leaving the feedback -- feedback from many low post accounts is likely to be fradulent, so is a lot of feedback in a short period of time.

I guess, in a nutshell, I don't see why FT has to interfere with what people wishes to do with their property.