Well they really only get attention when posts count everywhere.
If you look at it. It went through tons of pages in the past day.
Prior to that, it was 1 week ago, 2 weeks ago. Then like 350pages + from december when posts counted everywhere as well.
I'm talking about the count to 10,000 thread obv. And it's pretty much only used to abuse post counts and let people build huge post counts.
I think that's kind of stupid, and a cheap way to get posts. It doesn't contribute ANYTHING really.