I know! But no one will tell me what I'm doing wrong that makes people want to remain silent near them. Not like I"m going to cook them or feed them to my pet tentacle monster (mine!).
It feels like there is something about my writing, both this and EG and my mainstream byline that just doesn't get comments. I think I scare people.
Not sure how, I mean, look at my pic, I'm cute.
Is it a chinchilla?
It might just be that there is too much order and people are losing oversight. OK, on the DGF threads sink into oblivion... but the brighter side is that people can see what threads have been responded to at a single glance. I wonder what would happen if you were to merge a number of separate boards into one single larger one. Or if you would work with a double structure: all threads and comments having their own niche, but also accessible through one encompassing board. Thus they would be present twice, in a manner of speaking, or at least be represented twice. That would certainly be something that would work better for me, hasty poster who comments while chewing his food next to his computer...
EEE seems to be suffering from the side-effects of its (over?)orderliness as well. Built for order, it probably is experienced as very orderly by its creators, and by people who hang out there day after day - but occasional visitors will be a little lost, not knowing where to start, or where the movement occurs. The structure of the DGF is linear, the structure of this forum, as far as I can see now, branching, and the EEE's structure heavily "connectionalistic," to borrow a concept from cognitive science (by which I mean that the same areas can be accessed through several routes, and that the talking about certain art work often happens not in the place where the artwork is but somewhere else, so that one has to go from here to there and back again, etc.). The linear may be the least orderly, but is also the easiest structure, brewing a mix of things that somehow encourages people to speak...
One thing that plays a role there is that they do not have to wonder whether what they are saying, or want to say, fits in any special category. There's just one place where they can post, and that's it.
But ofcourse there also are other things... This, however, is all I can come up with at the present time.
(Except then that I, half a year ago, didn't post because I thought I wouldn't like the designation "hesitant" below my name...)
