People are trying to increase their post number so they can either sell the accounts or be involved with those airdrop like advertising campaigns for new coins..
Ah... thanks for explaining that. I was wondering about it, myself.
There are some interesting comments by Kristy-Leigh Minehan (OhGodAGirl) on this youtube interview about ASIC resistance where she uses RVN as an example. Jump to 12:45 where she starts with "No Proof of Work is safe."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3i3jpJqgooParticularly at 14:47, "There is no such thing as ASIC resistance."
There are already some people mining rvn with FPGA boards. They are not static hardware like asic, and they can change the algo if the pow algo changes. But they are expensive hardware. I hope pow algo devs can find a way to overcome this.