User blog comment:Sonasaurus/Because I'm sick and tired of feeling like we're burning out/@comment-1596833-20120617021313/@comment-1044705-20120617022000

As much as I hope the "people will be a little more active and then everything will be back to normal" thing won't be true, I think that's the most likely case. If they even do try to be more active after reading this, which I seriously doubt.

I think the whole problem is a vicious cycle of "don't read, don't write". People spend what little time they have to writing their own stuff, that they don't read anything by anyone else. When no one gives them even an encouraging comment, they become discouraged and eventually decide to write less and less until they stop completely. If everyone took just a bit of time to read someone else's article, just giving a simple compliment on what they liked about it could make all the difference. Just a sign that they read the article and that they liked it. Since Wikia doesn't offer a page view feature, communicating through words is the key to maintaining a community's relations.

And yeah, I figured you had given up fixing your comment. Sorry about that.