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Oh dear. 
Take an aspirin Ming. 
I won't buy into keeping post counts because post count reductions are allegedly a good threat. It's like advocating speeding on the highway because speeding tickets are a good deterrant.
Besides, I don't even think it's that good a threat. The few people - if any - who like their post count but don't ever spam aren't the ones causing any problems. So where's the need for a threat. Another group of posters who also like their post counts and do spam are the ones causing problems. And I bet you they'd cease spamming if we dropped the post counts.
I'm not out to make this personal or anything, but look at Mao (hi Mao!). When he reached the level of 10,000 posts where there was no reason to improve his post count anymore, he virtually stopped posting. Before that, he posted 10,000 times in 18 months. Why should other post count fidels act any differently if we dropped the whole thing. It'd be back to posting things of some value to others and nothing else. Just the way most people want it to be.
Granted, there are other abuses than spamming that call for some kind of threat in order to be avoided, but spamming is by far the most common - and most disturbing - abuse on the forums IMO. And a short trip to Mingapulco has always seemed to cool down flamers, DL's and what have you. So we simply don't need post counts just in order to use reductions as a threat. That's what that swampy island is for.
Take an aspirin Ming. I won't buy into keeping post counts because post count reductions are allegedly a good threat. It's like advocating speeding on the highway because speeding tickets are a good deterrant.
Besides, I don't even think it's that good a threat. The few people - if any - who like their post count but don't ever spam aren't the ones causing any problems. So where's the need for a threat. Another group of posters who also like their post counts and do spam are the ones causing problems. And I bet you they'd cease spamming if we dropped the post counts.
I'm not out to make this personal or anything, but look at Mao (hi Mao!). When he reached the level of 10,000 posts where there was no reason to improve his post count anymore, he virtually stopped posting. Before that, he posted 10,000 times in 18 months. Why should other post count fidels act any differently if we dropped the whole thing. It'd be back to posting things of some value to others and nothing else. Just the way most people want it to be.
Granted, there are other abuses than spamming that call for some kind of threat in order to be avoided, but spamming is by far the most common - and most disturbing - abuse on the forums IMO. And a short trip to Mingapulco has always seemed to cool down flamers, DL's and what have you. So we simply don't need post counts just in order to use reductions as a threat. That's what that swampy island is for.
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