Originally Posted by
RichMSN
Still, it's a little toggle switch in vBulletin to turn off post counts in a forum. It would've been exceptionally easy for Randy to set up these contests where the post counts didn't increment. I wonder why
he didn't do that.
The reason why — as far as I know — is that those contest threads resided in the CommunityBuzz! forum, and the “toggle switch” affecting “post count” can only be implemented forum-wide, not to individual threads.