100 post rules are useless (for OMNI and other forums like SPAM), and can be easily circumvented.

I do not see how you can say that it "failed". It was a vibrant community with lots of users and posts. If miles and points are the only consideration, then you should toss out "Community" forum or the "Only Randy" forum too because I do not see that either contributes to miles or points.

As someone who has argued for less moderation, I would say that the solution is to let people post, clearly state the guidelines (which I think has been done), and once a week revoke the posting privileges of abusers. Adopt a 3 strike rule, where the first violation is a week/month, the second one is a month/3 months and the third one is a total ban. This is not going to fix everything, but it will minimize the time that the moderators have to spend (and let them revoke somewhat liberally).

Although I have been missing OMNI by not finding time to post or even view it these past few weeks, OMNI will be missed.

One small request: please leave past OMNI threads/posts available for searches. There are some useful threads in there (beyond the entertaining, informative and/or disputed ones).

We have something like that already, but it goes the following way

1. One Week
2. 30 Days
3. Lifetime

And yet, when we moderate something we get bombarded with PM's, emails, posts in ORP how unfair we are.

Really, closing it was a good thing right now.

If OMNI comes back, should be minus politics, religion and we cannot have only-OMNI members that love to cause trouble. We had too many of those :(

LOL... You just summed up the procedures we used in Omni for the past year.

Remember this question posed last year?

"What is the chatter about closing OMNI about?"

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...highlight=omni

First of all the numbers could be tweeked a little bit. Make them a little longer.

Secondly, I was proposing things that could minimize your work. You should not have to moderate on a daily basis. Once a week look at offending posts. Emails on how unfair you are should right away be discarded, end of discussion on those. Have a rule that anyone who publicly posts about these unfairness issues or moderator issues gets two strikes.

Just out of curiosity how many offending posts do you think there were in a week?

Between 20 and 100.

As of late, I don't know, maybe 10 a day.

Sometimes more, sometimes less.

Although I too will miss OMNI, at the end of the day enough posters were going out of their way to pick a virtual fight that it was only a matter of time before it was closed; no one can say there wasn't ample warning. If people could only refrain from the political & religious backbiting it would have been fine, but I guess that was just too much to ask for :rolleyes:

I haven't visited OMNI at all in the last three months... and have posted there little to none in the past six to nine months.

I don't miss it nearly as much as I might have predicted a year ago. I've found other outlets for that type of chatter (other IBBs, real-life friends) and don't feel like my enjoyment of FT has been hindered one bit.

I agree with Bonehead. I enjoyed OMNI and, though discussions got heated, they rarely got truly vicious -- certainly nothing that adults couldn't handle. I'm sorry to see it go.

So if you had to login as a moderator once a week, look at 70 posts, and decide what to do about (I'm guessing) half a dozen users wouldn't it simplify your task?

I agree too.

Again, you're describing what we did. Each complaint took between 5 and 15 minutes to resolve. You then need to add in the overhead of dealing with the complaints about OMNI actions on this forum. In my estimation, 10% of the OMNI actions over all generated a complaint here.

We hasked TPTB for a ban on certain topics (as Mary has already outlined), it was rejected. So I guess we'll have to live with no OMNI at all. :(

The problem is that the public whinging about unfairness (a.k.a. "let's stone the moderators") tends to occur in this forum (ORP), not by PM or e-mail where at least a reasonable explanation can be offered. What do you propose the community should do about that?

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