>>Finally, my thoughts as a Reader. Always, always, when I read something I try to leave a comment. Not just because it's polite, but because of a certain way of thinking I have that's always served me rather well in the past. It goes like this:

You've expressed this so well. I don't understand people who don't comment, and some of the excuses for not commenting...well, they don't make much sense to me. Even at a basic level, it's just polite to say "thank you" to someone who has just entertained you in some way. In the theater, you clap. In a bookstore, you put down your money to purchase a book. Why do people feel that they can take over the internet and not be at least as curteous as they would ordinarily be if they were being entertained in any other way? Is it merely the anonimity that allows people to be so oblivious?

This topic always frustrates me... ;)