I find it very hard to make any qualifications of respect for a person based off of history on an internet forum. I may lose respect, but never will I gain any as you don't see what peoples personality is in the much more important daily life. Post count would be a trivial matter anyway. I find that people who have a higher post count have been here longer, and that means they know how things work around here. This allows them to conform to the fold better, but I can't really tell if I like their personality more or not since this is a Forum and I don't know anybody directly. I do say that you can respect a persons decisions and opinions relative to the discussion. Like I said earlier, people with higher post counts have been here long enough to know how things work, and that means they contribute better quality posts. There are a few exceptions though.