Gasp its deleted!

You don't say.

Then that sort of thread would be truly ENTIRELY worthless. It wouldn't even give the user benefit of inflated ego. Do these posts in these forums count toward forum totals or not then?

It doesn't. I made well over 100 posts in the million thread and 1000 (I think) in the funhouse, yet my post count is only 71 (72 with this post).

We're only doing this for fun.