It would be even more silly if this site was called Loungebanter.
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it's silly that we attach so much significance to our post counts that we feel we need to deny people posts that aren't deemed worthy (i.e. music-related). who cares? i don't look at anyone's post count as a measure of their musical knowledge. if someone wants to have 50000 posts in the lounge, does that really matter? are you so offended when you look at their post count knowing those posts weren't made in music forums?

While I agree that post count doesn't signify much of anything, unfortunately, a lot of undesirable personalities do. Lounge posts are a lot more lenient than on-topic posts and get a lot of play with a lot of different things. If we counted posts in the lounge, we'd be full up with people using it just to bulk up their post count. It's already a job making sure the music areas of this site aren't being abused, but adding in the lounge areas, it'd be ridiculous.