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Comment Poll Just this once then you can go back to lurking!

I was looking back at the data for old posts, and something interesting stood out to me.

Back in the heyday of blogger (2005-2009 or so), the ratio of visitors to comments on a post was approximately 50:1. As in fifty people would visit before one would leave a comment.
It started dwindling in 2010 until now, and now the ratio averages around 1000:1. A thousand unique visitors before one person leaves a comment. My conversations with friends who run blogs seem consistent with this trend.

So Im curious to know what happened? Not that comments are the reason you run a blog by any means, and while I liked the feeling of a big blogging community interacting in the past, Im asking mostly because Im curious about the psychology of someone who decides to comment vs. someone who doesnt.
So if you dont mind, please take a moment to answer in the comments (just this once :) ). Ill make it multiple choice, so you dont have to elaborate if you dont want.

Pick one of the following reasons why you usually dont comment on blogs you visit/frequent:

A. TL:DR. I skim through a giant blog and tumblr feed these days, and with my limited time, comments are definitely out of the question.

B. Blogs are dying. I spend my commenting time on other sites like Facebook, twitter, tumblr, etc.

C. No faith in responses---Ive been ignored too many times, so I no longer like putting a comment out there when there is no promise of a response.

D. Followed a link only, not going to waste any more time here. (I probably wont get many people giving this answer, but Im guessing this is one of the big reasons.)

E. No point. Im usually just telling people "Good job, your art is cool!" and that eventually seemed tiring and useless.

F. Typing is hard. For some people, it is.

G. Some other reason. Its okay to simply answer "G" if thats all the time you have, but if you know the reason specifically, Id be very interested to hear it.

Depending on how people answer, I might do a follow-up post assessing preferred ways to communicate with other artists, whether more meaningful communication is necessary, and whether you feel like were losing something by checking blogs without interacting.

Thanks for your time!

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