“As an enthusiast am I supposed to be motivated by the page counter on my site?” If you bothered to put a counter on your website, wanted to attract like minde

“As an enthusiast am I supposed to be motivated by the page counter on my site?” If you bothered to put a counter on your website, wanted to attract like minded individuals, or get enough people to sponsor you to continue work you otherwise couldn’t do, yeah probably. Or we can go with the unrealistic idea that enthusiasts as a whole don’t have egos or motives beyond shouting into the void to express their pure love of <insert thing>.