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Originally Posted by Assassin
I'm finding it very difficult to get most people involved in open discussions; I guess most are too politically correct to venture an opinion. Heaven forbid they should offend someone with a differing opinion. Even here you see the same signatures on most threads and a new one is a rarity.
I've been blogging at a fairly new site, Great Minds Think Aloud, and with 100 members and about 80 visitors per day it's almost impossible to get people to participate.
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A 95% lurker rate is average. Maybe even good; if you can get 1 in 20 readers to participate, that's a lot.
The crowd at ebooks.dreamwidth.org aren't reticent; I expect that most of them just didn't have enough experience with Smashwords to comment. (If someone had posted a similar list for Lulu, I probably wouldn't have anything to say.)