I don't care about the post count resets, but it does seem like a dumb move. Having members with thousands of posts makes your site look good, as though it has a shitload more activity than it actually does. WIS needs all the cred it can get seeing as how most of its games suck now.
Take away the people posting bs in this forum, the pit, and the mlb forum and this place clocks a couple hundred posts per day total. If the entire forum consisted of just that, I'm guessing they wouldn't have overhauled the forums with more features than I've seen on message boards dedicated to message boards.