Was this not one of the reasons why Kidda C got Banned for complaining?? sure he mentioned somewhere that someone got Vet status after just one month because they get replying to Newbie posts to rack up the post count???
The welcome section does not count towards posts, this sort of thing is watched by the mods.
This old chestnut again? No, he posted a thread " should Kiddac be made VIP?" And included a poll with it.
The first person that said no, that he was full of himself, Kiddac flew off the handle.
About 4 weeks prior to this, I recommended him for VIP, HT got around to it the night of his poll thread, but when he saw it, he removed him from the VIP LIST and didn't see how he could give it to him without it looking like kiddac had held him to ransom.
That was a funny couple of weeks! Made for some great reading. Need someone to have another meltdown!