A quick note about reader comments
Join the conversations in the comments sections
I encourage all subscribers who read posts when they land in their email boxes to check out the comments section on the website and join in the conversations, if any — and there usually are some with each post.
One of the goals of The Naturism Community is to have reader participation. We have some very knowledgeable naturists here with many years of experience, and sometimes their long comments are the equivalent of full posts. I learn from them, and am inspired by them.
Comments sections are usually left open long enough for the conversation to run its course, so all subscribers have a chance to offer their thoughts.
Please, join in.
Cheers
Jillian
My understanding is that in an online group, 90% of the people are lurkers, 9 percent will like and sometimes drop a short comment and only the remaining 1% regularly participate. That shapes my expectations for online activity.
I'm one of those who can't stand to just lurk. If it isn't interesting enough to jump in, I don't hang around long. But lurking is still okay.
I hope that I'm not counted as a 'lurker', not having participated here much recently! I want to point the finger at Substack as the reason. I'm very wary of leaving a digital trail online, it comes with my line of work in IT. Substack have tweaked their settings in what I think is an attempt to make it harder to use without giving up more of our user data. I won't compromise my privacy for a service that I actually subscribe to, using a little of my hard-earned. For a while I couldn't be bothered, plus I had little free time, I now have a workaround where I give up even less of my data, and it works for now, so I will aim to be back here more Jill. I have been reading the posts in my email, but I did miss the engagement from both reading and adding posts, so I second this small post explaining the pros of greater engagement.