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Technically, only members with post counts over 5000, with a few below that count for historical reasons.

Besides, all the actual data collection is entirely scripted these days. I periodically check a few counts manually, to make sure the scripts still work properly, but it's been over a year since I had to fix anything.
Wish our developer could say the same!
 
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