Yep.. there was a guy over at one of the anti-sites who had a similar obsession over fundraisers keeping charts and graphs for how much time each took and the donations day by day, jumping up and down if something took an hour or a day longer than before.. it was really sad to watch his obsession and how he kept posting it as though anyone cared beyond his little circle.
The numbers that really count in my opinion, are not number of Freepers but number of external views (that, according to all external analysis websites, reach into the millions per day). That shows influence.
100% agreement.