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[Sysman]

The 'Money Saving Expert' forum has a different take on the 'rep' idea IIRC...

Posts can be voted to be useful or not - which they've chosen to brand as 'thanked', so you have the post count plus 'thanked x times in y posts'. They also show who thanked/rated them. Not sure that's necessary.

I've seen Thanks and Groans which were used as a means of bullies ganging up on others. In that case, the Thanks/Groans function was removed from the sections of the forum equivalent to LR here.

[Incognito]

So the bullying that I see in General is humourous and without venom?

There you have it. Too many of the 'click' thinking CUK is just for their amusement and anyone with an opposing opinion is a village idiot, although you did rename that to something else SAS didn't you?

[Incognito]

And this is totally like the post count whores IMO.

There's your problem Admin. The reason that General has become more like Light Relief is because those post count whores migrate over here to keep their score going. Sad really isn't it.

[DS23]

Or alternatively, my suggestion of over a year ago:

Let's face it, the only possible reason for displaying post count is to imply that somebody with a high post count has contributed something of value to the community. We know very well that this is not the case.

Therefore, posts in each individual forum (General, Technical, etc) should show only the member's post count for that forum.

After all somebody who's posted a lot in, say, B/C probably has something useful to say on the subject at hand, and their high B/C post count would show that they have contributed.

Conversely, somebody who's posted almost nothing but abuse of immigrants and inane ranting about BTL in General, or indeed somebody who's posted a lot of drivel in LR (like me), shouldn't have a spurious credibility conferred on them when they post in a different area.

Post count by category is the only way post count can have any actual value.

whs!

[sasguru]

although you did rename that to something else SAS didn't you?

yes:

Village People with Learning Difficulties (TM).