I don't think this will solve anything. The people who are using the Game threads to post pad will not participate. They will try to post pad in OMNI proper, creating WOT threads that are almost games, but not quite. Anyone moderating OMNI (Randy) will tear his hair out dealing with this, pardon the term, gamesmanship. Forums other than OMNI have full-time moderators and are much better equipped to deal with post padders who want to waste their own and others' time.

To the extent that games are not used for post padding, the present arrangement accommodates that perfectly.

I see OMNI as an escape valve for FT. I could go either way on counting posts there, but Randy moderates OMNI and he's in the best position to judge what it takes to make OMNI workable. Heaven knows I wouldn't want to try to be a moderator in OMNI...