Insanity Explained

Since most people that complain about the server downtimes seem to be people that have no clue about computers/databases/etc (as evidenced by the fact that they try and bring up games with a much much much smaller player base than WoW and try to use their downtimes as a comparison) let me try and put the difference in English that these people may understand.

Let us liken server maintainence to organizing books on shelves. Now, we have two libraries of equal size, one that has 10 people going in and moving the books around randomly all week and one that has 100,000 people going in and moving the books around randomly all week. Can anyone tell me which library will require more time to reorganize?