Here is some info for the Data lovers.
Since the 14 November:

• The total amount of contribution (accepted and not accepted) is 18,294
• The average daily contribution is 332 posts
• The day with the most contributions was ... yesterday with 789 contributions
• 55 days ago, there was only ... 54 contributions! That's a Net Growth of 1461.111%

SOURCE: Steem SQL http://steemsql.com/

(Also there is a little mistake, you said "every second" instead of every minute. The day Utopian reach 1 contribution/second they'll need quite a lot of moderators !! :O )