Quote Originally Posted by walkerwek1958 View Post
One of the reasons I've stopped posting technical stuff is the lack of interest.
As robt says, I'm quite sure it's not lack of interest. It's just that intelligent comments to technical posts are harder to write and "cool post" seems a bit lame. But within the system that we have at the moment, I guess "cool post" comments might be helpful afterall.


Quote Originally Posted by robt View Post
FWIW it's probably not lack of interest per se. I personally quite often subscribe to threads I find interesting to follow the replies. However, if all I can add is "great post, thanks" I generally don't (although I will sometimes give a post a tactical bump if it's not getting any replies at all). [...]

What it boils down to is that there's an impedance mismatch. Posts that take effort to create also take more effort to respond to and fewer people are qualified to do so meaningfully. Such threads are always going to go at a slower pace than "look at my new BLNR" types.
Spot on.