Well most forums have "ranks" the more posts you make the closer you get to the next rank which in 1Up.com forums if you have a certain amount of posts you can join clubs like the Hylian Knights and in Shining Force Central you get ranks and gold to buy online Shining Force collectables (they are fake) and they probaly don't want them "cheating" and yea it makes the forums look really messy and most of the time it pisses ppl off for some reason like once I accidently posted the same post 5 times I don't know what happened but I was yelled at by 4 ppl fortunatly I wasn't banned (YAY!!!) that is all I could think of.