I'm quite new to this forum, and even though it's quite refreshing not to be daunted by longer serving members' post counts, it just doesn't look right not knowing how others have contributed.
Perhaps the admins to could disable the post count feature only for newbies like meself, and then once we've established a decent enough count we could then have this feature re-enabled.
I'm a member of a few forums - about three others, and even though I've often wondered why (how) newbies can create humongous post counts within a short space of time, you do get an impression from the post count what sort of a member you might have to deal with.
It's also quite possible that when someone is new they might only be posting for personal reasons like attracting hits on their web sites rather than just wanting to be helpful.
Err, p.s., I may attatch my web site details at a later date when I've felt that I've been helpful, err, that's if I can rember my post counts.