For all newbies/the naive. Here's how you can boost your post count and really impress your friends :

1. Find a ligit post which you vaguely know something about.

2. Post a reply which is almost completely unrelated to the question but which someone might find interesting

3. Go to 2 until another likely post presents itself

I'm not having a pop at anyone here. I just find it pretty funny where threads end up sometimes, having begun as a reasonable technical discussion and ended discussing the virtues of lager vs alcho-pops. I'm sure some of you ( you know who you are ) do this deliberately to get that count going.