Post Count

[Clark Kent]

As a reader of this forum I think removing the post counts is the wrong move. Making information easily accessible to all readers is what forums thrive on. Of course there are the posters who go overboard looking to artificially inflate their post count, but one can gleam relevant information from knowing a poster's total. I don't think the signal to noise ratio has gone down recently and I read the forums everyday. If anything the signal to noise ratio has gotten better since HD DVD died and with it much of the trolling.

The post count provides a little context to what the person is talking about. I'm much more likely to pay attention to a poster who has several thousand posts because it shows they've stuck around a while and have made some type of contribution to this forum. I'm not planning to click through every time I think the post count might be relevant as it simply will take too much time.

And while I have the moderators' attention I bring up a sidebar to this discussion. I brought this up in another thread in feedback but I will reiterate it here. The trading score line in our posts should disappear for people with a trading count of "0". It's truly a useless piece of information that adds nothing and visually distracts while reading posts, especially now that the post count number has also been taken away. Thank you for listening and have a good day...