Listen up, silent majority!

Well to answer your question..hmmm...let me think...how about 100 per story? LMAO

Blimp's reminder as to how fortunate we are here to receive as much excellent feedback as we do is entirely right and justified; and I cannot disagree with others of the Blimpist Tendency who take a laissez-faire view of the whole knotty issue - better read than ... whatever...

But, remembering my own paranoia in the early days (of the Hands Off Bottoms Police turning up at my workplace and announcing my irredeemable pervertedness to the entire staff over the tannoy system before escorting me from the building followed at every step by the narrowed, condemning eyes of all my former colleagues expressing their utter disgust) ... I felt a plea to those who have, as others have said, at least some sense of what's courteous, in terms of expressing gratitude, would not go amiss.

I wanted (in vain I know, as those who perhaps most need to read this thread won't) to say:
It's safe here; it's not dirty; nor are you; get over it; join in.

Anyway, at Blimp's suggestion, onto more pressing matters:

The PCCI (Pinkic Crisp Consumption Index), which of course tracks the latest data 24 hours a day from their dealing rooms in Edinburgh, stood at 5682 this morning, according to Reuters, and has had a quiet day on exchanges from Hong Kong to Montreal, moving up just 8 points to 5690 on news of healthy quotas in crisp production on the Chinese mainland, putting to rest any fears of potential shortages. Hopes of a return to the Bare market conditions of the late 90's continue, however, to be mere speculation.

As long as it's a bare market rather than a bear market, we'll be OK.

That said, sometimes late at night I find myself lying awake whilst obsessing about the possibility of some sinister international cartel gaining control of the crisp supply, and then driving up prices by creating an artificial (shiver, groan) crisp shortage.

Lincoln wrote:

"A comment saying "a load of rubbish" is better than no comment at all. So why don't people comment? Is it shyness? Perhaps the non-commenters who are reading this forum could let us know."

Personally if I do not like a story I just stop reading it - I would never give a negative comment.

All Internet sites have many "lurkers" who like to browse but simply don't want to get involved. That isn't unusual.

I do my best!


Hmmm... let me think that one over...


At last! Some useful news!

I thought bears ate buns, ( and put the crumbs in paper bags)

On topic, I should feel some fellow sympathy with non-commenters for two reasons, firstly I have been suspended from a spanking site for not posting (by none other than dear Febs on Bottom Lines as it happens, for I was using that noble orifice of the spankosphere merely because there was a door marked "Kilahara Library" in it, and I used to pass straight through without even a wave to the Bottomliners. I know, I deserved a spanking). In Febs' defence he said as I was an author there it shouldn't have applied to me.

Secondly I recall how nervous I was in my initial forays into spankospace that I would meet exactly the sort of fate TEM describes. Any spoor I left would doubtless be scooped up and placed in a bag marked "News of the World" and splattered all over, if not the world, then perhaps the church magazine. That it hasn't happened yet is probably due to the demise of both those august organs of the press.

Despite this, as I haven't been outed as a spankopervert in the press (yet) I have little sympathy for those with a high VC ratio. How hard can it be to vault the staggeringly low hurdle set to obtain all the treasures herein ( well, currently 146 treasures to be precise)

Hehe me too, we should start a club

I am very laid back about comments on my own work. I don't write prolifically - 20 hours a day in the library sees to that LOL - and although it is great to get some comments when I do post something, I don't obsess about it.

The thing with the none commenters in general though is the lengths they will go to trying to avoid something so simple... repeat registrations, followed by every excuse under the sun as to why they did that. Not one person has ever said why they don't/won't comment and I am interested to know should anyone wish to tell me Commenting is no more unsafe than being on the site in the first place... it changes nothing.

Must go, time for my first morning crisp break

A modest suggestion....

As several members on this thread have pointed out, the non-commenters will probably never see this discussion, as chances are they don't visit this section of the Library. But, like Pink, I'm intensely curious to know why they don't comment. So suppose one of us - and I'm quite happy to volunteer - were to choose a few of the n/c's at random, say some of those with a 500:0 ratio or worse, and send them a polite, friendly pop-up asking them why they're disinclined to comment? Ok, probably 9 out of 10 won't reply, and a few might be frightened away altogether - but it seems worth trying....

It would more likely be 99 out of 100 who won't reply. And the 1% who DO reply will be non-representative of the rest, simply because they are willing to reply while the others won't. So it'd be a lot of effort that wouldn't provide much useful information.

Therefore, I say - GO FOR IT!