What matters is whether Hegel was a fraud, not how many people believe that he was / wasn't a fraud.

I don't believe that's what matters to this discussion. In the article we're talking about, Stove gives some representative examples of 'great thinkers in philosophy' and wonders whether we should go about revering such people, and whether we have any good way of understanding exactly what's wrong with certain types of thinking. MichaelVassar argued that Hegel is not really a good representative of this class of people, and I was arguing that he is. I think this argument is relevant to the discussion of the article, whatever you'd rather we were discussing.