Originally Posted by magiciansampras

To me the most valuable knowledge I've received from this board has been from OMNI. Sure, I learned how to use the ITA Software Tool and some other neat travel things in the M&P forums, but in OMNI I learned about mortgage tax incentives, how to best understand a rental market, where conservatives and liberals come from when they speak of free trade not being fair trade, etc. etc. I have also made lots of friends in OMNI as opposed to the other forums which remain fairly sterile (which is why they have off-topic threads, like the Delta Lounge).

To me OMNI is an integral part not only of FT but one of the more informative and knowledge-rich forums anywhere. As such I think the knowledge there is deserving to "count" in any meaningful sense of the word. The way we have things "count" around here is to have them increase post count totals.

In short, I'll for OMNI counting. ^

This is not to say that OMNI is perfect. It's not. There are annoyances, there are game threads, there are post-padders, etc. etc. etc. However, all of these issues can be dealt with other much measures, some of which are already in place, they just need to be enforced (post padding in TOS, for instance).