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It tells you that the interest in a diary or a diary topic well exceeds the number of people interested in commenting. From stats available from Daily Kos, it is evident that the number of visitors who are not registered exceed the registered members at least 4 to 1.

But when I look at who is commenting on these IP diaries, the same names keep cropping up time and again. The commenters are few, even though the number of comments they generate are many.


by shergald on Thu Jun 10th, 2010 at 09:48:56 AM EST
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A lot of people, particularly in the States I'd guess, are not confident enough of their knowledge in the various major areas of debate here. Crappy education, anti-intellectual society, it has its effect. So it's understandable that people are scared to comment.

It's important to remember that and be kind and respectful to each other (unless someone is a complete a-hole) in order to encourage contributions from newbies. Us commenters should try to make comment threads a welcoming environment, and for example hold back from the lazy and unprovoked put downs and insults you sometimes see, even right here in this thread (I'm not referring to you).

fairleft

by fairleft (fairleftatyahoodotcom) on Thu Jun 10th, 2010 at 10:33:39 AM EST
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