I guess I personally don't see the problem since I stick mainly to the AS forums and spamming *usually* isn't a concern there. If it's really a problem on the other forums, I would suggest more of a crackdown on those people that do spam. People are going to spam regardless of whether there's post counts or not. The only real deterrent is punishment. Of course then there would be arguments of favoritism etc. on what might be considered spam and why one person gets a warning while another doesn't, but that's why we're Mods/Admins...to be as fair as possible to everyone (regardless of post count and based on merit of posts). It may cause extra work in the beginning, but once the groundwork was laid, the spamming should reduce greatly. I can see how removing the post counts may actually add to the spam. If someone posts asking for something and gets a reply from someone they don't know, the original poster may post again just to ask others to post to say if they are trustworthy or not. Or if someone posts a link to something, there may be long discussions from different posters on whether the original poster can be trusted or not. Post counts can give a slight indication in these matters which could reduce the follow-up spam. Personally I see both sides, to an extent. Some of the arguments made are just silly while others have merit. Since there seems to be a compromise of keeping post counts but moving them to the profile, doesn't that seem to be the most logical way to go about this?