IMO who cares about a post count.Does having 5,000 posts mean that that person knows more than someone with 5,no.Regardless of where they posted.For that matter you should go ahead and not count any posts in the classifieds or rig gallery or customer service or the newb section cause what do those really matter.What's the point of keeping track anyway?
I agree the posts should indicate a productive contribution to the forum. There should be no post count for Off Topic, Customer Service, Classified, Rig Gallery or any non-tech posts. I also believe that as part of the personal information in your profile you should be able to select weather you want to have a post count or even a turtle count. I can also see where restricting these counts will remove some of the fun of this sight. It can't all be just Tech information. There are many discussions that get people involved. Even the Word Association was a fun distraction. I see where there are several people on the sight that complain that there are "post padders" here. What the....is a post padder?
The post counts seem to be very important to some of the "old timers" on the forum. It must have some thing to do with "rank". I thought it was all just fun.
Give the moderators a "rank" and the rest turtle points and an avatar.
