I don't know how/if this would affect people's post count or if they would care, but ...
In the lighter side, there are some topics with over a thousand posts already. Surely nobody is going to read all 1000 posts when they start reading one of those threads. Why don't we leave the first 10 or 15 posts (almost like a sticky) and then start auto-deleting posts 16-xxx once a topic post count gets up over 500 (or whatever number) to keep the topic at or around 500. That might help save DB space.
I enjoy some of the lighter side short posts, but I can see where that would eventually be a huge resource hog. And really...how many posts do you have to read to get the idea of how a topic works like Chain Reaction or 4 Words Only or TPBM?
Just a suggestion ... food for thought, if you will.

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