As I understand it, counting OMNI posts was feeding the growth of purely post padding threads that arguably subtract value from OMNI.

OMNI is a difficult forum to moderate. Reasonable steps to make moderation easier help keep OMNI alive and healthy, and that's good for FT. Is Randy's decision the best possible option? I have no idea. But he certainly knows more than I do on this subject.

Could all of us here cooperate to come up with a superior proposal? Perhaps, but first we'd have to cooperate. I'm not hopeful about that. The underlying issue is ego-driven, and posturing seems to be the order of the day.