We do pay careful attention to what people actually read. Voting with the eyeballs and all that. Strange as it might seem, we get much better response to release-candidates and obscure Linden Lab hirings and activities than we do to amazingly cool people doing amazingly awesome things.

Why? I've no idea, but those are the things that the SL readers *really* pay attention to, whereas pieces about nifty sites in SL or cool activities garner considerably less interest. Go figure.

Why is that surprising Tateru? People who spend time on forums or with the news show that pattern all the time. People read good news, nod and go on with their lives. Throw something controversial in or something people can argue over and it will become a flurry of posts and arguments. This doesn't make controversial postings better or more important, or even that people pay more attention. It just means people like to argue. Something like this post, there's not much to argue about, so there's not as much activity.