Yea, on a news site, the metrics are important. If suddenly you start seeing errors accrue above background noise and it's affecting a number of people you can act on it. If it's affecting one user, you probably don't give a shit.

In finance if someone puts and entry for 1,000,000,000 and it changes to 1,000,000 the SEC, fraud investigators, lawyers, banks, and some number of other FLAs are shining a flashlight up your butt as to what happened.