What about having some interactive status?
you know, besides having yor status because of your number of posts, some members (the ones with the higher rank) will vote to give you some special status that no one else has.
That'll allow us to recognize each others singularities without losing the # of posts rank. Besides it'll be cool that having lots of posts gets you in a selected group, "the ones with vote", you know, like a supreme court or something hihi
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Besides we need nothing to do this, we could set the rules and have it done with honor; the top 10 members (counting the posts) form the voters, and when they give you a special status, you add it to your signature.