When EN crashed last year, I lost over 900 posts - the vast majority of which were in House Rules, in which I was well known. Really, I was kicked in the shorts in regards to creativity - I had even, in the week previous to the crash, posted up a thread on a new homebrew I haven't touched since (because I lost all three pages of it), and in fact it's only been in the last couple weeks I've gotten back into House Rules and rekindled my love of tinkering. I got depressed over how much of my hard work had been lost.
While I went on (like others) about how I lost so many posts, I was thinking about what I posted, not just simply the number which appears under my username and my supposed "loss of rep" or some silly thing like that.
just one man's opinion,
--N