I think sometimes people post really complicated issues, or one's that not many people have been through. If I see a post like this and I've no idea what to say to the person I might make a post saying "I'm sorry I've no helpful advice for you, but just to let you know I read and I care and my PM box is always open", and I know that when I've had replies like that to my threads sometimes it has been helpful. Sometimes people just acknowledging they've read means something to me at least. I don't think [people do it to get their post count up, if they wanted to do that a much more efficient way would be to just go hug loads of random threads as they count as posts too.
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