These seem like a gimmick and look awful on mobiles. Wasting many lines on the screen. Please allow us to turn them off. Some of us actively avoid badges/likes/shows of status online - thats all the bad parts of todays social media. I have zero interest in having users country count put in my face multiple times as i scroll. hope FT isn't drifting away from quality discussion into mainstream social media trappings of badges, likes, etc. Many forums these days are removing post counts and join dates from main forum threads to streamline and simplify everything to focus on the discussions.