there are two things.. one is the promotion to full membership, which he was, regardless of his post count. He was promoted because he seems like a genuine nice guy .

The other thing is the ranks, which yes it seems its post-count based, but if I may make a comment here, forget about that. While in other forums there may be some sort of 'race' for status based on ranks and post counts, here in the Nexus we really dont (or shouldnt) care about this. What matters is quality of posts. At least personally I dont care about post counts and never pay attention to the rank; good posters are good posters and Ill keep paying attention to what they write, whether they are here since the beginning or just joined yesterday