Well... Could be worse...
Over on the Palisades board, in the original version before the shake-up of mid 2005... 1000 posts not only got you Senior Membership-status, but you could customize your own status title.
Now, there's a new title system in place, you can't access the customizing title feature until getting to a 42nd title.
The highest we've gotten is Title 25: President of Toys at 10000 posts, the member who has the most known as Rainbow Watcher's been stuck there still at 11500 posts.
Hope this helps somewhat.