The only purpose (other than free advertising) these contest threads serve
 

is ramping up huge post counts.

Don't get me wrong, it's better that they stay locked away in one or two threads rather than hit every thread like some trolls and sig whores....

I just think that it can be misleading for someone to join today or tomorrow and see someone with 20k+ posts who joined a few days earlier.

Join date that is what counts in my book.

:1orglaugh

So true.

:pimp

i thought the point was to keep the thread at the top..

Did you read the thread title?

yeappppp