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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 3490384" data-attributes="member: 115">I agree with everyone who has said to get rid of post count, and this is why:Firstly, there's the inevitable problem of people posting just to increase their post count.  There will always be meaningless posting, and inevitably there will be people that will post a lot of garbage.  However, displaying a post count provides one more excuse for that.Second, I don't think post count serves any real utility.  It's not an accurate gauge of... well, anything escept for who is a prolific poster and who isn't.  That is readily obvious once you spend a little time on the boards.Third, I think that it diminishes the impact that less prolific board members have.  In part because posts are drowned out, so to speak, but more because people will naturally pay more attention to the people who have a higher post count.  However, I feel that in many cases everyone has something worthwhile to say, and that can tend to be masked by post count (aka the "newb" syndrome").  I think that it's less an impact here, because our hobby is older than the internet, and I think we probably skew higher age-wise than the average message board posters.Fourth, I don't really think it adds anything to the boards to balance out what it subtracts.For the same general reasons, I'm all for masking the join date as well, though I think that's less of an issue.</blockquote>