MadScientist
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In addition to the number of posts, how about giving some sort of measure for each user of the number of replies generated per topic started.
For example, user xyz on average typically generates 10 replies per topic started.
Presumably, you'd get a high number if you started good topics or were inflammatory all the time, but since this site doesn't allow inflammatory posts we'd be able to see who the really good topic starters were.
Besides being a cool number to have, it might encourage people to do a search before posting a topic that will only get one reply refering to a previous topic.
For example, user xyz on average typically generates 10 replies per topic started.
Presumably, you'd get a high number if you started good topics or were inflammatory all the time, but since this site doesn't allow inflammatory posts we'd be able to see who the really good topic starters were.
Besides being a cool number to have, it might encourage people to do a search before posting a topic that will only get one reply refering to a previous topic.