While I personally think that counting the posts in CC will allow for more consistency, Randy recently posted
this post in the
Proposal: Update the regulation of Coupon Connection's thread. To quote him, "CC is not like other forums and that is the danger of any comparison."**
I suspect that in some eyes, that difference is why the posts don't count.
**Note that the topic disscussed in Randy's post I am referring to was to address a different issue/question. But it seemed to me that some of Randy's views mentioned would also be valid for this issue/question as well.