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Originally Posted by White Manju Bun
So then why is having post count shown so important to you? Does this strength the community at all?
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Part of my argument is that having a community with a lot of active members having high post counts indicates that the community itself is strong, vibrant, active, and well-established.
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Again as many people have already said including myself, post count really in the end means nothing...
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That's simply not logically correct. A high post count strongly suggests that a particular member has been part of an online community for a long stretch of time.
In any event, like I wrote before, I accept that the public post counts idea was clearly not a popular one. So of course I accept that nothing will change there. However, some of the negative responses on this thread are frankly way over-the-top, based on my own experience on very large message boards that have public post counts. I felt compelled to respond to those negative responses which I honestly feel do a disservice to boards that have public post counts.
The other reason I've made the posts on this thread that I most recently have is to counter Westlo's suggestion of scrubbing join dates. I don't want a depersonalized, anti-information AS.