vkaryl - 3:24 pm on Oct 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

On a forum for which useful content is key, I would opt (I think - I don't have fora like this actually) for not showing post counts at all. The main disadvantage to this is that you will sometimes confuse new users who won't know which of the posters have been around a while, and maybe the newbies will take some bad info to heart at some point.

I wonder if a logical way to rethink this might be to list "date registered" under a poster's name rather than hisser post count. It's generally a positive indication that a given poster can he counted upon to provide more useful input rather than dreck (this is not always the case, of course, but probably more often than not....)