Here's what I don't get. Somehow attaining "Evangelist" status by typing "Kip Hawley is an idiot", "TSA sucks" and comparing any form of aviation security to the Nazis is considered a better contribution to FT than someone who can count to 100,000.
So if the rationale behind removing OMNI post counts is truly to keep people from reaching 10,000 posts from posting worthless things, why are the TS&S posts still counting?
For the same reason that posts in the airline forums count when someone says
AA sucks or
United is the pits. For the most part, those comments are part of a longer response and all are still related to air travel. I don't think anyone has achieved "Evangelist" status by posting in TS&S like is done in OMNI.