I cannot find any way to remove this feature. Can anyone point me in the right direction. Trying to remove post count, at least from view of users.

At the moment, there is not a way to disable this.

As Chops pointed out there isn't a "built in" way but it could be done.

Now this post isn't in the advanced layouts so before I go and post a bunch of javascript, I don't know if you feel that you are able to work with the advanced layouts and in particular with javasript. If so I'll post some code for you that may require some editing for your particulars.

Ok thanks, I'll just have to keep a eye out for the trolls who try and play with the counters... thanks