the people opposed to XT don't want anyone to know how many other people are on board because they are fully aware that if people had accurate information about it, they'd be the losers.
If the anti-XT people are that sure they're losing, why should any of the rest of us doubt?

Unless NotXT can now make pod-person versions of Gavinistas, you've confused nodes/blocks with "people."

We are aware of the (apparent) popularity, especially on vapid cute-animal-focused social media, of XT.
How many times must we explain Bitcoin is not a one-opinion-one-vote democracy? FFS, the populism and self-pity are nauseating.
Theymos already (famously) declared Gavinistas, whether 90% or 51%, are welcome to fuck off to their own forums and subs.
Why don't you demonstrate GavinCoin's supposedly dominant socioeconomic consensus, by being among the first to defect from Trolltalk?
If we miss you, we'll come say hello over at /v/bitcoinxt.