I'm sure many of you are familiar with the message board Gamefaqs. I like how their system works. Instead of a post count system, they have a karma point system. For each day that you log onto the site, and have at least one active post somewhere on the site, you are awarded 1 karma point for that day. This way, they allow people to accumulate something, to appease those for which that matters, and at the same time it does nothing to encourage post-whoring since 1 post each day is as good as 100. There is also a ladder of member rankings in place, which award you increasing privileges as you advance, but that is actually needed there since it is such a huge board. I'm sure something like that would be a bitch to code.