Forgive me if I seem to be on the offensive, I just don't understand what you're doing.
It really doesn't seem like you think it's funny. Rather, you even said that it's annoying. I'm not too sure, because I don't really know you, but to me, it just seems like you're looking for an excuse to complain and spin a negative view on the newer members of the community. In addition, I also think you're being overly-liberal in your opinion on the whole privacy thing. I don't think there's any privacy issues being violated by publishing the boosters, it's just another cool little 'stat'. It's just like being able to see who has what item, or how much TP people have, or have many posts they have. Hell, under your terms, the ranking system is a violation of privacy.