Great thoughts, very possible. Be sure to claim your fame if you are proved right. (If so, FReepmail me and I will point people to your post if you are embarrassed to do it yourself!)
Yeah, but unfortunately it would be but a fleeting one.
At one time it seemed that FR would have on the page in a poster's "personal" file of posts the number of "hits" they had on a given thread. This was not the number of total posts, but the number of people I guess reading that thread.
The number was disappointingly small, maybe 10-20 times the number of posts. So it would seem most posts have, say, 100-1000 readers. Total viewership I'm sure is much larger, but given the multiple threads and subjects, the 24 hour cycle, and the quickness with which threads disappear, the chances of any given post being read by very many people is pretty small.
By the way, I like your screen name. If my kids were still at home and they were making the choice for me, that's what they would have picked!