i got alot of negative feedback about the top 10, but the total forum gold seemed to be accepted, let's give it a run by itself.

Voted yes. This idea is much better without the top 10.

Care to elaborate on how this would be any different than showing top 10 users with most fg?

It still sounds an awful lot like showing people who to beg for fg to. Unless you're suggesting the top 50 donors are made anonymous or something.
I wouldn't wanna be show cased as one of the peoples on 'this list' with the highest gold and end up getting 20 pms a day from people begging for fg.

I think he means the total amount of fg on the site. As in all users combined.

I'm assuming he's just talking about having something like: "Total Fg in Circulation: xxx" or something along those lines.

And yes from me, would be interesting to see.

If it's not pin pointing anyone in particular .. then I guess it might be interesting. But wouldn't that be moot if anymore fg was to be made or taken out of circulation?

It could auto-update.