Pruning is a nessessity, I like things tidy, call it OC... I just can't stand to see several thousand registered accounts with 0-4 posts that havne't so much as visited my site in 3 years...
ok, I can go with that why you would want that. We decided against cleaning up.
But I can't see why you would want to fake a usercount that can easely be checked to see it's false.