I think your answer sums it up perfectly.

Ugh, I know what you mean Solam. I started the whole game thing when I saw a You're Banned game somewhere on another forum. I read a few pages of it, and thought the Stardock forums would find it cool. I never expected thousands and thousands of responses, and many other games. Wow...

I would like to be able to see recent posts when I log in in the morning without having to scroll past a dozen of those off topic game threads. just saying.

Well as someone who plays the games sometimes I think it really comes down to having nothing else to do......

Would you rather we don't post @ all?

Well no. I wouldn't want that either. I guess my index finger won't cramp up too much scrolling past the game threads.

Spam. There are/were a few honorable exceptions but the rest are spam. Glad that we don't have (public) post count in these forums. That would be another reason for some people to... increase their forumnite e-peen.

Seems more like just one another reason to add an Ignore This Thread function to the Stardockia forums. I've posted in a few 'forum game' threads, not found them really interesting over the long haul, but accept that taste is, well, taste. If I'm on a run remembering, enjoying, and/or inventing light bulb jokes, a light bulb joke thread is good fun. Otherwise, yes, it seems like clutter.

(apologies for the crap formatting at the link destination, but it is born of Usenet...)

I totally agree with this, it's probably the worst idea forum developers ever came up with.

There is a public post count in Stardockia, just not a prominent one. Right now, it looks like you have 5 OPs and 160 replies.

I think a 'karma' system is a far worse idea than the discrete inclusion of post counts in user profiles. I give karma regularly, appreciate that folks have taken the time & clicks to give karma to me, and wouldn't for a second miss the feature if the devs ripped it out right now.

The 'low end' forum games often strike me as attempted 'karma farms.'