Well all you really have to do to see how much a member contrabutes is look into their past posts a bit the first page or so will tell you alot, a person who says 1 short senstance per post probably isn't the greatest contrabuter to the forum.

I do agree with ethen on alot of things but I don't think the post count should be removed, it gives us motivation to post on threads where others might need help to just stop by and give them a bit of advise, I mean as long as you don't spam then it's ok with me.