Originally Posted by
magiciansampras
It's not posts that are relevant, it is experience. And posts simply say nothing about flying experience; they say something about posting experience.
# of posts, IMHO, has nothing to do with actual knowledge.
Perception seems to be the point you're trying to make. The way to do with this, I would think, is some kind of disclaimer that says:
"Post counts do not and should not convey any information about a user's expertise in a given area."
So by that way of thinking then we should also have a disclaimer for join date under our handles since it could be inferred that someone who has been here longer knows more about travel than a newer arrival, which we know not to always be the case. Knowledgeable about FT by all means but more knowledgeable about travel in general? Not necessarily. So what's the difference; why should post count be such a factor when there are others?