Have a signature shop where we can purchase like, 50x50 sig. pictures with points that we accumulate. The way we accumulate points is by the number of words we post, say every 5 words = 1 point. Points could be displayed under our avatars in the forum. Have the ability to see your own sig. buddy or deactivate sig. buddy through settings. Sig. buddies would obviously be in our signature. I think this would make the site funner than just roleplaying, and more active.

I don't favor the idea of points, let alone based on word counts. Then people would get upset if they're in Free or could just end up posting gibberish for the sake of points. I also am not in favor of "buying" graphics, be it with fake or real money. I'm unsure of what the term "buddy" entrails, based on your usage though, it's more like a graphic displaying points rather than some "humanoid avatar" that is springing to mind. I do give you credit for the interesting idea but I don't see it (personally) working out well, and it would probably end up getting abused and overloading anyone who's shop "accepts" these hypothetical points. It just seems a bit overly complicated. We're here to RP (most of us value content over AMOUNT of said content) not to make a game out of it. (Well there is Spam...) This site is plenty active as is and I don't see this as being a positive or "neat" enhancement.

I'm against anything that would make a writing community "funner."

This isn't the sort of thing that should be done at a Guild administration level. Building some kind of point system into the site infrastructure would inevitably lead to angst and strife of varying brands; in the point system you propose this negativity would end up being caused by people posting nonsense all over the place in order to rack up points, particularly by way of flooding the Spam section with massive gibberish posts, because people might not get that spamming garbage is still against the rules even in the section named Spam.

Anyway, point system aside, asking the admins or mods to make a bunch of graphics for this kind of thing is a little ridiculous. The already devote some of their free time to making sure the site doesn't turn into a heap of garbage, and in Mahz's case also time spent working on new site features that would actually have some function other than looking pretty, so asking them to devote even more time to implementing the word counter and point tracker and to making graphics (which many of them may not have the skill or knowledge to do with any reasonable quality) and then to make and maintain the shop thing is kind of silly.

The best way to have some kind of graphic reward for high activity or whatnot would be for it to be done by users, for other users. Maybe a shop in the Gallery where people can get a new set made if they've made a certain amount of RP posts or whatever. That would be a little bit challenging to manage right now since there's no search function and not much of a user post history, but it could still be done if whoever is running the shop feels like taking the time to manually go through some threads to count posts. Even that seems like a lot of unnecessary work to me, but hey, as long as it's someone volunteering for it rather than foisting it upon someone who is already doing work for free for the good of the site, it's all good.