I will add my 2.2¢ here (.2¢ being Australian Goods and Services Tax @ 10%). And this has already been said, but I don't think it hurts to re-iterate it.

The reason we have FlyerTalk is to talk about travel and travel-related issues. A newcomer to a particular forum - or indeed FT as a whole - has no sure-fire way of gauging the credibility of a particular poster, if that poster responds to their queries. So barring a sure-fire way of determining a posters credibility, post-counts is normally used in this way.

"He has 9,217 posts, and hasn't been banned, he must surely know his stuff."

And that sort of thing.

Now, as I said, this is a travel-related board. So only posts that are related to travel should be considered when it comes to post-counts. Posts about who is going to win the GOP nomination, posts about the Australian government apology to Aboriginals, posts about whether Argentina should try and reclaim the Malvinas, none of this is travel related, and to include these posts in a post-count will enahnce a posters credibility to new-comers when it is perhaps not warranted.

That is why I think that this proposal should be rejected out-of-hand.

Dave