Take a look at this site's statistics. I've been hanging around here a lot lately, and I find that many seemingly interesting threads lie dormant and ignored.

When "online" statistics appear, usually it cites four or five people - a member or two, and perhaps a guest - moving about the site. Sometimes there are as many as a dozen or so.

Then, looking at individual thread stats, I notice that most threads receive just a few comments, some, though, get as amny as 130.

Then, I notice the "views" stats. There I see that many - MANY - of the threads have 10, 20, even 30,000 views (30,000!!!!). The sheer amount of lurking is phenomenal.

The other day, we were talking about Sonicbids. Being a newbie to it, I was looking to you hip scenesters to give me the straight dope. Then, out of nowhere, pops a Sonicbids employee, who sets us straight on the official company line. Weird!

William F. Buckley once said that a publisher friend of his said that magazines take letters very seriously, because so few people ever write in to complain or anything. So, three or four letters implies thousands of like minded readers who just don't have the gumption to write in.

I wonder what all these lurkers would say? What gets them here? And do they lurk at our shows, too?

Anybody?