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Post count, in my opinion, gives a quick look into how old a member is
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So does join date.
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Post count, in my opinion, gives a quick look into how old a member is and how his posting qualities are. Since all nonsense topics are thrown into Necrum and thus deducted from your post count, you won't ever get near a 1000 if all you do is spam up the place for 3 years. Someone who posts mostly quality things generaly has a higher post count.
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Posts are only removed if they are spam, posts that are seemingly irrelevant or unnecessary aren't, one can easily manage to accumulate many posts by simply agreeing or giving the barest bones of an argument. Welcomes and Birthdays are the best example of this, look at any welcome thread, what do you see? The same message reworded slightly by a multitude of different members, and it will always be that same group of members that welcome new memers, their post counts sky rocket. "Hello" is not intelligent conversation, I understand the need for good will, but is greeting every new member necessary? No. Is celebrating everybody's birthday, regardless if you even know, or care, about them? No.
As for post counts giving status, I don't believe this to be so, any one who has been here for a short period of time will (probably) know who is respected and who isn't. One can measure a members worth by their level of repsect, grammar, coherency and intellect. Those with low posts generally have poor grammar and don't contribute a lot intellectually.
I suggest we implement a reputation system, members give other members reputation based on what they post, they amount of reputation someone has is depicted by a series of images, the more rep some one has, the more of these rep images they will have. I have seen this done on another vbulletin forum, it is very effective, it is easy to recognise who is a respected member and who isn't (negative reputation is possible).
Yeah, what ever.
EDIT: I wrote all this before Max posted, but posted it after him, that is why I haven't responded to him. I agree with him though.