I like to be able to see how many "views" a thread has attracted. In the past, I have been disheartened sometimes when I worked for hours on what I hoped would be a humorous piece, and got very few responses. If I knew that people had at least read my work, I might feel better about such flops. Of course, if I find that people are neither reading nor responding, I will just have to double up on the Prozac.