Let me get this straight. By abandoning post count and user rankings--two of the most useless gauges of user contribution and value ever introduced to forum communities--we're disregarding "everything from the old forum" and pretending "that the old forum never existed?"

That doesn't say much for the quality of the actual posts, does it?

No forum I visit outside this one that's worth anything uses post count or user rankings. It's all custom titles and post counts in the user profile.

Like I said, get a majority vote of the ~4700 members here and I'll reinstate post counts and user/useless rankings.