Okay that is a myth :P

I've had 2-3k posts deleted/uncounted for at least, and a thousand or two lost in the rollback, but I've been posting a lot longer than most over flagrant memes. I'm pretty inactive now relative to how I was a year ago, which in turn was relatively inactive compared to half a year before that haha.

Star is a marketeer.

You can notice small posts like "4k" and in reply, a marketeer says "No, 6k minimum".

That's the reason star has that much post count.