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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
That was one, and the other was to even the playing field for new posters who felt that their opinion was didn't "weigh" as much as old timers. It made for a divide where old timers were dismissive to new posters because they didn't have enough community investment...
at least that is what I remember... maybe I was drinking at that point.
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Those were the rationales I remember being given for that change as well. The post counts are all still tallied and such on individual profiles, though, so it'd be pretty easy to still have 500, 1000, whatever posts in nonsense if people wanted to. I don't think it'd be any harm there.
Most (though certainly not all) of the easy ways to tell novices from "old timers" have gone away at this point. I think a lot of people ran up their post counts early on to get to avatars and custom titles which they'd previously earned, especially at the beginning of this last "integral anomaly" which I think is also about when the displayed post count went away.
I guess I don't see any point to the awards, nor do I see how they contribute to the health of the board. People should participate and post because they want to, and good posts will receive attention because people will respond to them. I'm yet to see anyone with an award that I hadn't already passively flagged them for in my own mind. It's just now formalized with a cute little icon, which I guess is cool for them.
It seems like feel-good board masturbation to me. I don't see the point, and regardless of how easy it is to vote, I won't be. Though, clearly, I'm in the minority on that one.