Hi John,
You say:
Did I do the right thing and rejoin?
Well,
yes, you did.
This is the best Music Forum around for interesting topics to look at, and music to listen to with meaningful discussions about the music. The only reason I can think of for anyone wanting to leave the Forum is because they no longer find anything that interests them, and they think the music posts are not worth listening to .. and the comments put up are not worth reading. Equally, should Members not even log into the Forum at all, then there is no point in Brian and myself (and others who contribute to the Forum) spending our time researching things and putting things up. It would be like playing to an empty audience.
You then say:
It seems we have the same hardy annual. Members viewing posts and not making comments. Just looking at my posts ONE week ago. I have had about 50 views and ONLY 4 comments and I am not the only one to suffer this fate. Come on members it only takes a few minutes to give a comment.
I had made it quite clear in my post
Performances Info - Guidelines what our objectives for the
Performance Board are:
Do a right-click to open this topic in a New Tabviewtopic.php?f=2&t=5954.. and in particular I have said:
Comments are welcome but not necessary. And there is no compulsion to comment on other people's posts just because they have commented on yours. What we would really love you to do is to post your music in here for us to listen to!
I had added this because several Members were saying to me that they couldn't put their music up because they felt they would be obliged to put comments up on every music post that went up, and they didn't have the time (or inclination) to do that. The result of having these new Guidelines? We are now getting other Members posting music.
You also say:
I have had about 50 views and ONLY 4 comments and I am not the only one to suffer this fate.
Well, I think that's brilliant! 50 views! It's the
views that are important. As far as I am concerned, a Forum is 'busy' when people are 'looking', not necessarily posting. They
will comment and post when they have something specific to say, and have the time to do it. And don't forget, there are Members who don't necessarily log in every day (most of them, I would think). They just log in and take a look as and when they can. Anyway, your post has now had 80 views and 13 Replies.
Out of interest, looking at the STATS, 50 Members have logged in these last two or three days, and 92 have logged in so far this month. That is what I call a busy forum!
Hugh