Here is what I think. I like the post count. With it you can figure out who's been around, and generally, who might know their stuff.
On the other hand, post ****** like yourself skew that. It annoys me to see you taking up bandwith with your ridiculous 100, 200, 300, 400 etc post count, then posting for no reason but to raise your post count, time and time again.
The post deal has been around for a long time, I remember back in the day when it was a joke that would pop up every couple months, not every couple days
and it wasn't a constant ongoing thing.