I saw in clan rules there was something about stat padding, I think it was padding, something similar if not. Wondered what that was?

I'm quite a big fan of stats as I like to know my aim andhs %'s because it tells me if I'm getting better with any particular gun. I think that was 1 of the main reasons why I like campaign mode. Use to have competitions with my mates on highest percentage of headshots and completing campaign mode tells u just that.

Didn't wanna get caught up in stats though and wondered what the padding term meant?

that probably is in the bf2 rules section or at least is from the days of bf2... where players used to come on ranked servers (like ours) and knife/revive each other to get massive scores; one of the downsides of having a global ranking system.

Silly little kids that wanted to get high ranks like general to show off to their mates... if they ever had any

Since l4d doesn't have a global rank system, it's not a problem :-)