A 40 page thread having 30k ‘reads’ as per the forum software is not that unusual – but will record those who use screen readers, spiders, caching systems, preload under a twitter app link, facebook post prefetch etc.
In terms of spiders and bots, the top right and bottom footer figure from Google Analytics has such things stripped from it.
There is a finite measure available, and IMHO it is much more preferable to getting a handful of Wrexham.com’ers writing a diary (!) or even us cooking up some numbers then multiplying them by some random number :D