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The "Join Date" information displayed under a users avatar seems a little crude in it's current form (mm/dd/yyyy). I propose something more like dd Mon yyyy. Example using my info: 1/7/2011 turns into 7 January 2011 (alternately January 7, 2011) 

It's really handy for staff since we know whether to give an informal or not for certain offenses just from looking at the post bit (no need to look at their profile anymore!). I wouldn't care if it was removed for members, but I would oppose removing it for staff.

I am indifferent

I'm indifferent as well, you could go to their profile to view that, as you could and would on the live site.

It serves the purpose that a post count does, but-- in addition to that-- helps to make the information more accurate.

The post count sort of shows how active someone is, and implies how long they've been around. The join date makes it a lot more clear about whether or not they've been posting more or less frequently since they first joined, and shows exactly when they joined.

Someone with 1000 posts that joined 2 months ago is considerably more active than someone with 1000 posts that joined 3 years ago.

I think that using a format like 'January 7, 2011' would be better, since people are used to reading either dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy, but not the other.