Just to "defend" myself (and get the fictional job): my sarcasm got lost on that sentence you quoted, sorry about that.

I asked only for number-of-lines in this topic because I was interested in getting an idea of how many lines others write, not because I was going to say "you have more lines you're better" or "you have less lines you're better". As I have no idea what all the lines of code do, that other people posted, I am never going to compare the projects in this way.

I thought it interesting to see that people keep going, even though a lot of this is non-payed, and was happy to see that some of this non-payed work is so large.
Big amounts of code means lots of work, which I was interested in. I never said that small amounts of code means less work, and never intended to say so. Personally, I am very fond of every function that does the same thing, more efficiently, with less code. Even if the code's harder to read, i always loved trying to interpret and understand "dense" code.

Sorry, I did not want to make your head ache.