all the moderators here have been here for a long time. RIPPEN is the newest in terms of when he joined the site. NYUK, Meat and myself have been here since before 2002, when the site crashed and was rebuilt.
you have to keep in mind that many of our posts werent from asking questions, but rather from answering them. granted a lot are from just jackin around and BS posts, but the members with a lot of posts have been very helpful on HQ.
as far as advancing your post count, no one here except for me and Lee can do that, which we wont. if you want to advance your status then start posting and helping people. youll gain respect and a higher status.
as far as post count and amount of time here, its not impossible at all.. for example.. lets say you post 10 times a day. so thats 300 posts a month. thats 3600 posts a year. so you can easily see why some people have as many posts as they do..