Originally Posted by
camachinist
I would vote for members to not have a counter, at least not a publicly visible one which could be drilled down to individual posts, but my understanding is that change is a hack rather than something canned, so some non-standard coding is required. I base that on interactions at vB.org because I was trying to sell our site owner on doing away with the counters!

which reinforces that it was not created with the goal of 'helpfulness' in mind