its crazy that this little change would cause such outrage... it means that there is FAR too much people paying attention to these post counts and "STATUS".... by no means is a post count on an internet forum indicitive of their knowledge base!!! and to say that xantium should have ran this by the members b4 implementation is ridiculous!! all post counts should be gone! i know there has been these threads b4 and still the post counts are there. so i voted against, hopefully it will be a poular vote today. I think abolishment of the post counters will undoubtly decrease spamming, and the guys who seem to open silly topics for attention, and post over 100 times a day... guys like gain, ace, and bj, have huge post counts, but their answers,polite help and lack of whining are what make them "messiahs"