# Why doesn't Discourse show user statistics?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-discourse-show-user-statistics/20058
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [9월 14, 2014, 12:36오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-discourse-show-user-statistics/20058 "2014-09-14T12:36:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@joshfrank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joshfrank)
#### Post date: [9월 14, 2014, 12:36오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-discourse-show-user-statistics/20058/1 "2014-09-14T12:36:35Z")
In Discourse, the user avatar doesn’t show any stats about the user:
In other BB software, you generally see stats like total post count, reputation, date joined, etc. I’m not sure any of that is helpful, but it’s ubiquitous. What’s the reason why Discourse doesn’t give any clue about the user in this way?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [9월 14, 2014, 3:22오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-discourse-show-user-statistics/20058/2 "2014-09-14T15:22:07Z")
Click on the avatar… Ta Da!
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### Author:  [@joshfrank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joshfrank)
#### Post date: [9월 14, 2014, 3:35오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-discourse-show-user-statistics/20058/3 "2014-09-14T15:35:57Z")
That still only shows badges, not stats like total post count. Is there a particular reason Discourse departed from conventional BB software on this and also didn’t use reputation like StackOverflow?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [9월 14, 2014, 3:37오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-discourse-show-user-statistics/20058/4 "2014-09-14T15:37:57Z")
Do a search. It is visual clutter a far as Discourse is concerned
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### Author:  [@ampburner](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ampburner)
#### Post date: [9월 14, 2014, 3:51오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-discourse-show-user-statistics/20058/5 "2014-09-14T15:51:28Z")
Discourse is trying to focus on content and meaningful discussion, rather than showcasing stats and personal flair (signatures,postcount,reputation etc.)
The quality of discussions is Discourse’ core mission.
Everything else should either be supportive of the discussion, get out of the way, or be removed.
At least that is my understanding of the Discourse philosophy.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [9월 14, 2014, 4:00오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-discourse-show-user-statistics/20058/6 "2014-09-14T16:00:21Z")
Here’s an entertaining topic on signatures:
> [@Automated Signatures?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automated-signatures/1127):
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> @codinghorror has already PM’d me that THIS implementation of Discourse discourages manual signatures. But what about automated signatures, like we see on other forums? (the forum software draws a horizontal line below the post and prints the custom signature) Some folks don’t like them and in the userCP, they can be turned off. Here? I can’t find the option anywhere at all. Is it on the cards or only through plugins?
And one regarding post counts:
> [@Add last seen and post count to user card](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-last-seen-and-post-count-to-user-card/16550):
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> I think we should expand our user card to include post counts: [image] Additionally maybe consider adding a row for Last Seen - perhaps a separate feature req/ Thoughts?
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### Author:  [@BreadBasket](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BreadBasket)
#### Post date: [9월 15, 2014, 9:17오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-discourse-show-user-statistics/20058/7 "2014-09-15T09:17:34Z")
> [@joshfrank](#):
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> Is there a particular reason Discourse departed from conventional BB software
This made me laugh 🙂 It’s the dispensing with BB conventions that makes Discourse so appealing right now. I have some issues with it, but removing post counts and other cruft is not one of them!
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### Author:  [@joshfrank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joshfrank)
#### Post date: [9월 15, 2014, 11:29오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-discourse-show-user-statistics/20058/8 "2014-09-15T11:29:09Z")
I’m not attached to the conventions, but some of them might be useful, so I was just wondering if this was a conscious choice to reject this particular one.
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### Author:  [@joshfrank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joshfrank)
#### Post date: [9월 15, 2014, 11:29오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-discourse-show-user-statistics/20058/9 "2014-09-15T11:29:33Z")
This is exactly the discussion of the issue that I was looking for, thanks!
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [12월 4, 2025, 11:32오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-discourse-show-user-statistics/20058/10 "2025-12-04T11:32:25Z")