I don't care about special titles...probably because mine would end up being "Post Whore #27" but, yeah, what the Compendium needs isn't people trying to be popular on the internet...if you really desperately need that, go to MySpace or some damn thing. I wouldn't mind the merit system because it's an easy way to say, "hey, what you said there was right on" or "wow, cool new sig/avy" without spamming up the forum...but then again, you can just do that with PMs, can't you?
So here's a big fat WHATEVER for the whole thing. It's all good because the people here more or less kick ass and no special title or point system or post count is going to change that (hopefully!).