[tiwil]

How about making a special counter that only counts and uniformly scores a post if it gets atleast one upvote from staff or sponsor (3 from normal users might be another way to promote).

So it only counts when people post and get an upvote from staff/sponsor or 3 upvote from normal users? The only thing I think is, for what is that special counter?

I mean, if the special counter used for monthly post requirement, then it'll be very hard to accomplish 20 posts/month because of this. Or if it's used for another thing, what is that? I still don't get that from my head.