# Any way to omit post counts for members? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 10, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096 "2014-09-10T18:02:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/1 "2014-09-10T18:02:03Z")
I know guests’ post counts don’t show; any way for members to do so? After a decade my count is getting ridiculously large, I confess, and I’d rather not see it all the time. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/2 "2014-09-10T18:23:22Z")
Display of posts is controlled by Usergroup. In this version of vB it’s a function turned on or off, period. It’s not a user controlled function. Display of posts is turned on for Members/Charter Members. Display of posts is turned off for Guests. I can’t see to verify this but I don’t think we can turn this off for you without turning it off for everyone else that’s in your Usergroup. Sorry we’re not more help. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/3 "2014-09-10T18:35:26Z")
Sock up and start over. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/4 "2014-09-10T18:39:07Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Sock up and start over. 😛 Elendil Heir’s Heir? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/5 "2014-09-10T18:58:37Z")
Ooo, it’s almost tempting… And thanks, **Tuba**. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/6 "2014-09-10T19:44:16Z")
Or just let your membership lapse? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/7 "2014-09-10T19:56:15Z")
Post in reverse to bring it back down. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/8 "2014-09-10T20:03:05Z")
Or you could all of us to agree that we don’t want to see our post counts any more. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/9 "2014-09-10T20:13:56Z")
I guess you should’ve thought of that before you made those _forty-eight thousand, two hundred one_ posts, shouldn’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/10 "2014-09-10T20:22:17Z")
I could follow you around and quote all of your posts with “+1”. Not because I agree with you, just to remind you that it’s adding to your post count. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/11 "2014-09-10T20:25:13Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > Elendil Heir’s Heir? **Heir’s Spare** ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/12 "2014-09-10T20:32:23Z")
Simple enough to make a new usergroup — done it a dozen times; still simpler to put a user in a different usergroup. Whether it is worth it for one person is different, but personally I probably would, even though I would regard the high number as a badge of pride. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/13 "2014-09-10T20:49:48Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Or you could all of us to agree that we don’t want to see our post counts any more. Do you think that’s likely? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/14 "2014-09-10T21:22:31Z")
> [@Claverhouse](#): > > Simple enough to make a new usergroup — done it a dozen times; still simpler to put a user in a different usergroup. I suggest we call his usergroup “48,201 and counting.”😃 We could start deleting his posts from the beginning. However, it might take us a few years to make much of a dent. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/15 "2014-09-10T21:30:57Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Do you think that’s likely? Probably not…but if it were put to a vote I wouldn’t mind either resetting them, or even getting rid of post counts altogether. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/16 "2014-09-10T22:24:27Z")
I seem to recall somebody resetting their post count some time in the distant past… ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/17 "2014-09-10T23:57:50Z")
After checking mine That certainly is a ridiculous amount of posts. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/18 "2014-09-11T00:28:04Z")
Anybody with more than 40K worth of posts is obviously a total loser with zero social skills. I think we should ban them, for their own good. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/19 "2014-09-11T00:34:02Z")
Look at it this way\*\* Elendil\*\* 48201 posts, assume 5 minutes each. 48201 x 5 = 241005 minutes. /60 = 4016.75 hours /24 = 167.36 days. Hope this helps some ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096/20 "2014-09-11T04:03:41Z")
Tough crowd, tough crowd… In my defense, a lot of those posts are single words, in games. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-omit-post-counts-for-members/698096.md?page=2)