It should be trivial to program for it. The counts are already being kept; it isn't as though a person would have to go through each of the half-million posts individually.

<Aside: One-half million! That means fully one in six posts to FlyerTalk are OMNI - not related to points or miles or travel or community or even gripes to Randy! Wow!! That in itself says something.>

It would seem one could program a bot to check each thread, cumulate the totals against individual posters and after summing the totals over all threads, deduct from the individuals' total posts. That's the sort of mindless mechanical repetition that bots are great at. Launch it and forget it. Don't even need to give it a beer break.

If I were the cynical sort, I might wonder whether some of the folks objecting to the idea were motivated more by the potential effect on their totals than by the "cost" involved in doing it, but because I'm not the cynical sort that thought didn't even cross my mind.