Originally Posted by Visitor200

I happen to be a moderator and administrator at another worldwide forum that uses the same software as this forum does (at least in generic form). We had the same challenge five years ago and wanted to reward our longtime members with both a graduated User Title that is based on an increase in their post counts, as well as provide a solution to allow other members to pad all day long in forum areas where they could. Once the changes were made (which only took 30 minutes), all 50,000+ forum members are happy now.

Here is what we did:

1) With over 200+ forums and sub-forums, our team decided which forums would be designated as chit-chat, nonsense postings, games, puzzles, just about anything that did not have to do with the meat and potatoes of our main forum mission. Once those forums were designated, we simply went in the Administrators Control Panel (CP) and manually turned OFF the option that allows each post in that forum to be counted toward a Post Count.