I dont really care about my post count as have more important things to contemplate than a number below my avatar.
If I were 1 post away from 5,000 then I had a number of my posts deleted due to threads being purged from the site then who cares, I can make the number rise again by continuing to post in other threads.
However, there are folks who do nothing but sit around and try to run up the number of posts as they believe that the number of posts is a badge of seniority on the forum which couldn't be further from the truth as many of those posts are often conversations with themselves or meaningless one word posts or posts with just one smiley face on it. (No offense to Jake though as he has made many meaningful posts on this forum), but people likened to 'HER' and others who fall into that same catagory if that makes any sense.
Every forum has their bonafide postwhores, and every forum has its members that make few posts, but the posts they make, have weight and make one think and thus brings about further discussion within the forum.