See, my whole point is that it would not help at all, whatever is meant by "help".

I publish some numbers that magically add up to whatever, what's the value of that? How does it "help", if by "help" you mean increasing my trust score with a select subset of bitcointalk forumites? The only thing it'll achieve fooling some idiots into the illusion of transparency.

That's like people sending GPG-signed e-mails being like "see! you can check the signature on this message, I've attached the public key".