Snap judgments... Age, join date, reputation, post count, user title, avatar and sigs all play a part in that.

Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax
Can you say why posts in the flame pit aren't counted towards post counts? That probably took extra code to achieve, so I'm just wondering.
That's a feature that vbulletin already has. Big difference between toggling a radio button to "no" and writing (cleanly, and maintaining) the code behind the scenes.