Suggestions for the database system and message counters.

Message from HoM[M]ie
Mafia is generally a good thing, but this is a forum about Heroes. So yes, I would like people who come to the forum to be able to navigate it properly. Otherwise, they'll see someone with 1,000 messages and think, "Wow, a Heroes expert!" But it turns out they just got all those messages in the Mafia section.

That's just silly. Do you think someone will come to the forum, scroll all the way down, find a list of users by the number of messages, draw conclusions from it, and then write to the first person on the list?
Newcomers usually write to the administrators or directly in the relevant section, which is not difficult to find, especially on the main page. A person goes to a section, finds a topic, opens it, and gets the users who can help them. Absolutely no problems.