There are plenty of lurkers who have been here for years and never contributed anything. I don't want to trade coupons with them over someone with an established history. Nor take them to dinner when they are in town, nor fetch their camera from the AF lounge at BCN and FedEx it back to the states. There needs to be some way to indicate who is active and who isn't. An attendance certificate in the form of a join date isn't enough. Every single forum I post on actively has post counts.

On the other hand if there were a way to find out what kind of reputation other posters had, post counts wouldn't be so necessary. There's an idea...