The number below my username

Philippines
February 17, 2007 1:15pm CST
I'm just curious what is the number below our username? What does it indicate? What is that for?
1 response
gehaste
@gehaste (342)
• Romania
17 Feb 07
the number of your responses :)
Mgorg19
@Mgorg19 (65)
• Philippines
17 Feb 07
huh!? But I already had 12 responses, from the topics I have started and comments I did