I had that problem recently too - many, many people were PM'ing or commenting me, and begging based on my aquarium gold count. I was angry enough to make a thread in SF, asking that we have the option to make our gold counts private, and made a petition too (Link to SF thread
Here and the petition is
Here, if anyone is interested). I ended up putting that line in my siggy, and it's worked pretty well these past couple days. Only got one retarded n00b with the standard line of "Nice avvie!", to which I replied "Thank you! ^.^" and got back "wanna don8???". *sigh*