I think post counts have a tendancy to basically leave 'cause for higher posters to stick up their noses to new posters, however it can 'cause people to be desperate to post more, sad...but it helps on a forum as inactive as this place can be. I wouldn't describe the lounge with as much bitterness as some of the people here but i definately understand the fact that we removed the post count for it, i love this place for it's music discussion (even if i've not been as active recently as i once was) and anything to discourage mass posting in the lounge and encourage more music debate has my vote.