With all due respect to the OP, focus on post counts is puzzling to me. I've seen people on FT with very high posts counts act in a derisive manner a lot of the time, and I've seen people with very low post counts operate in the same manner. So can someone help me understand the fixation on "post count"?

My preference for judging someone's "value" to the community is to focus on what the person posts, not how many times they've posted.

So again, what's to gain by tinkering with a number?