Well, sort of. As a practical matter the posting rules are different for OMNI. OMNI wouldn't be as fun or addictive if every post needed to meet every letter of the TOS. This leniency adds value to FT, IMHO. It also means that posts in OMNI aren't equivalent in (average) value to posts in other forums. So the current policy makes sense.

IMHO anyone who is post padding for the purpose of bragging about post count is subtracting value from FT. Yes, even if the post padding occurs in OMNI. If the current policy discourages such activity, that's a benefit to all of us. There may, however, be more surgical methods to discourage post padding.