[John_Shaft]

Originally Posted by kh99

I think reputation takes care of that somewhat, since you have people actually reading the posts and judging them (although I guess that can turn in to a popularity contest).

That's my thought, and as such I've never used reputation. We don't have a lot of active registered members so I'm not sure it would work well, though I'm gong to look into it.

In a way, word count is just another measure of quantity.

Well yes. But quantity of words is a measure of actual quantity. Wheras post count actually isn't. I just visited a competing (busier) forum where, no word of a lie, many of the posts in the thread I read were just single smilies. Post count is no indicator of quantity.

Anyway, I'll take a look at this idea (unless someone points out where it already exists.

I'd really appreciate that.