BBC Guilty of moderating comments

For some reason BBC want to give the impression that WanderingScribe's blog is extremely successful.
In their article, referred to previously, BBC claim WS has had 11,000 readers per week - I posted 2 comments on their web page pointing out that although she may have had 11,000 visits this did not in fact mean 11,000 readers. Many of these visitors went back regularly every day and often 2 or more times per day so the actual number of 'readers' is much lower (it could be as low as 500 actual readers, which would only be 1 week's sales and not enough to make it a top 10 best seller).
But do you see that in their comments section - NOPE - they obviously just want happy smiley everything is wonderful comments.
I am not trying to detract from WS's success - I would just like BBC to get their maths right.
Publishers may want to take this into consideration when trying to judge pre-publication popularity.

What's that saying? Lies, damn lies and statistics!! 'nuff said.