same thing happened on a forum at this site,
www.tekkenzaibatsu.com they removed post counts all together, and traded them in for little sheilds showing, i guess, seniority. they upgrade depending on how many posts you make, but it's less of a goal to up post counts now. a lot of people stopped spamming afterward. also, they did that post deletion where if your posts are spam, they cut them off your file or record, or whatever. good idea. the post count system here is nice, i like the fact that i can post a small comment and not have it add to my count. don't ask me why, i just think it's a neat system... :P