By default, the system bumps up post count by 1 for each post. If this was changed to 100, 10,000, 500k, whatever the limit is, you could have bumped up and flown under the radar.
But then, how did josh lose 25k posts?
Well that sucks. The numbers can be amended so that demonstrates some insight... How you amended it is the question. Or was it you or someone else? Hmmm...