no richard i would have to disagree with you there, for some reason and even neo has admitted it he is after getting the highest post count, so if you had the post count in other sections and not LL then it would encourage spamming in those areas for those who have a post count goal and it would be a pain for us mods to control.
This was discussed a while back when we had a problem with spamming, but recently it has got out of control, we dont mind fun threads but some of these are just created for upping peoples posts counts or some threads are being abused for the same purpose.