If you look at the bottom of the index, the post cound is around 120,000. If you reply to a thread and look at the web address, it says we are very close to the 200,000 post mark.
Which is it?
vBulletin tracks the number of posts at the bottom as the total number of posts currently on the board. The "199xxx" is a remnant of past vB3 crashes by the looks of things.
Maybe the boards that don't count posts towards your post count also don't count them towards the total.
Bad mods, bad!!! Prunning threads!!!!
Deleted threads still add to the postid count, don't know about posts in no-posts-counted boards.