I'm going to be a real grouch and agree here. I want to see the posts/threads with some "Meat" to them content wise when I log on to the new messages, not a bunch of "pat on the back" posts. And since it will be quite some time till I get a leg up rank wise, I'm feeling quite the Grinch.;)

By the way, isn't the staff somewhat worried that rank based on the number of posts is going to really boost the "me too" types of non-sense posts? As the Administrator of two very busy boards myself, I can attest to this real danger. Just a thought.