Originally Posted by
Kiwi Flyer
Rightly or wrongly some (most?) newer FTers do equate post count with travel knowledge. If post counts more accurately reflected posting about travel then that is a good thing.
Do you have any empirical data to back up this claim? I've seen lots of folks in this thread, some with low post counts, saying that post counts don't convey anything. I'm not sure you're right that people assume anything about post counts correlating highly with knowledge level.