I wonder what the count would be if we could exclude the spammers... Still, we've come a long way since the forum first started more than 10 years ago. I don't know what the proportion would be of FEs and FCs on the road today as a result of the forum, but to everyone who's given their time, advice and assistance to their fellow forum members, thank you.
For those that are interested, there's a bunch of stats about the number of posts, new members and threads available in the
Statistics Centre (unfortunately only since the forum platform was moved from YaBB to SMF, about 3 years ago).
cheers
RET