Search back a few months, post counts were disabled months ago, use the search and all will be revealed.
So - Vlads thread simply reminded you to take off post counts for gallery too?
But the fact it had not been abused once in the forum you say 'spam manifests in' since post counts had been disabled months ago - was not an indication that perhaps it could be left in there.
I can understand if we were all abusing it to buggery but we never did :s