Will 500 members happen tonight?

Almost 800 now.
This got me to checking something and now I have a question.
Can the admins do something to fake the active members stat? Here the number for members vs. active is the same. No surprise there.
At the old board the number of members was about 10k and active came in at about 4-something K. Now the active number has been at 6555. something seems about that.