I don't have time to scroll through the entirety of masteryodas blog, but I'm doubting that fluff posting stats got him to his current level. I bet at one point before he turned to the dark side his content was informative, engaging and testament to the hard work put forth to produce it.

I'm but a minnow in a big pond, but the reality here is that stats posts or more akin to spam than engaging content. I wrote a comment previously on a different topic where I described "Lazy Whale Syndrome"

"This may even address what I as a new user have come to see as “lazy whale syndrome”.. I’m a whale, I made it.. I’m just going to post articles full of links with the mentality that the legion of dung beetles following me will upvote in the hopes of gaining curation manna from the turd I just produced."