The joke portion of this reply is that.....the 500 or so lurkers ( per post ) are not allowed to respond becacause they are just doing their job......working for Mr Ashcroft, collecting information for the Man.
They are not human....they are Ashcroftbots
The serious reasons could be many. I know that this place is very engaging for me and it's easy to spend a lot of time here. There are probably a lot of people that just dont have the time or the consistent interest to do so. They have something....what's that called.....hhhmmm....oh, yeah.....a LIFE.
There is also a certain appeal to being uninvolved. The Cellar is, in it's own way a soap opera of sorts. This is what's happening with this character, and this is whats happening to that. If you keep up, I can see people getting to know people that post here even with the detachment the net provides.
So those are just a few possibilites without getting all TW-ish.
slang