My vote goes in favor of counting all posts.

Having said this, I think that it would be a good idea to create an OMNI game sub-forum where all the counting threads and smilie threads would go.

Yes... I realize there is no 100% scientific way to determine which threads are positively "gamers" but the practical way of doing this would be to monitor the threads that have the most traffic and fall under the general definition of gaming and have those moved (if they are not started where they should be in the first place).

My final question is.... where do I send an application to get my FT Evangelist title removed and have it replaced by " Señor Malbec " ...?