Nah - Priscellie only does that in the Word Association thread, cause there's generally nothing in there to save for posterity, and we just take the hit on the post count. It's really only a hardship for the newbies like yourself that are fighting to get past that 100 post mark for whatever reason.
All the other threads go to The Nostalgia Nook (archive) at 50 pages. No count lost.