I still believe that it is the quality of the posts that really counts. How helpful they are, what they do for the community and so on.
I may have gotten to 5000 and yes I got there quite quickly, but I guess probably a quarter of my posts is idle chatter made ouy of boredom or saying "good job, I like it" where a simple click of the "like" button would have sufficed.
I am way more proud of the cases in which I gave advice for army lists that ended up working, or the few times when I was able to give painting advice.
Guys like
@Ritual @Warden @tom ndege and a number of others are nowhere near 5k but deserve at least the same amount of praise for being really helpful and valued members of the community.