more of my thoughts: the average on here is 10% of views are responses. (In other words, if the thread has 100 views, it probably has about 10 replies.) That's the average. I thought it might change when we grew so quickly, and with such a wide variety of members.. but it doesn't seem to be. Yes, there are still those threads that are viewed and don't elicit responses. sigh. And there are some that carry a higher response rate. Birthdays of longtime members nearly always go high on the ratio... even though that's considered a happy thread... it's like we eek out good wishes... we really do!