Yes, it is a stretch to assume the OP meant "Who cares if no one actually affirms your work, at least you'll get pageviews?"
His writing did not exclude that interpretation, but it didn't include it specifically either. We shouldn't be grabbing any possible interpretation from our own perspective and projecting it onto the OP.
His writing did not exclude that interpretation, but it didn't include it specifically either. We shouldn't be grabbing any possible interpretation from our own perspective and projecting it onto the OP.