TheEnglishMaster:
What can we do to encourage more commenting? Identifying the reasons why readers do NOT comment, and addressing these, might be a start:
is it just laziness?
They're crap stories (kidding) ?
Fear of exposure somehow?
Fear of not giving a 'good' enough comment?
Fear of entering an exchange with the author?
Um ... laziness?
I have to admit, I'm a reader, not a critic. And I'm a little handicapped in the command of English language because my mother's and my father's tongues were German and Nether Saxonian (I'm writing this with spell-checker for the right spelling and Google translator for words I'm not sure about, and it's hard work
). Because of this circumstances I have nearly only commented, if I was moved by the story very very positively. Only one time I commented negatively because I had the feeling the author tried to retell a piece of the "Story of O", but made a boring B-Story (like B-Movies) out of it in my opinion. But for that commentary I reread and reread that story to be sure, to do the author justice.
Btw. in my opinion that Eva Mendes' derrière isn't quiet spankable (no pun intended) as that of Charlize Theron.