The subject of post counts comes up time and time again. It is obvious that some FT’ers have real hang-ups about the mechanics of how other FT’ers gain their post counts. Some got very emotional that OMNI posts were not “real” FT post and should not count. That wish was granted. My question is why stop there? Do we exclude posts that add little to threads? Single word replies? Smilies? Thumbs up? Thumbs down? The list is endless.

My simple suggestion is to remove the post count completely. I’m not sure if it is possible for individuals to see their own post count so that they can continue to massage their ego’s but frankly I don’t care if someone has 20,000 posts or 2 posts so long as their contribution is valuable to the overall community.