Non-Members, what's keeping you?

[PictureGuy]

It is early Monday evening, and there are 115 viewers on-line here. Only two are members. You other 113, why don't you join up? Someone out there should be able to carry on a good conversation.

[Kaitou Ace]

About 70% of them are either search engine spiders, or spam bots. Maybe 20% - 30% are actual guest users.

[PictureGuy]

You mean not real people? Looking at the number of views many threads get without a response, I figured a lot of people come here just to read, but do not contribute. Nothing really wrong with that, but I figure some of them might have something interesting to say. They should share it.

This seems common in a lot of forums. Maybe some people do not feel they can express themselves too well. That probably is the case, but on the other hand I don't believe too many of us here are English professors. So why be shy?