by efin98
Engineer wrote:As long as it doesn't result in someone making posts just for the sake of making posts to get "promoted" to know there new "rank". Look at the OGR forum, people post things just to brag they have or will have XXXX posts.On every site that I belong to there is a group of people who do that very thing. It's always the same people: those who are either there for no other reason than to cause trouble or those who don't know enough or are not taken seriously. Someone with 200 posts tends to get taken more seriously than someone with 50 posts, even if the person with 200 posts only makes a few remarks and does not add much substance to conversations.In my not so humble opinion, the rankings do more harm than good.
Let the number of posts or the length of time registered on the site speak more than the "ranking", the only ones who really need to have any differentiation should be the moderators of forums and the administrators.