It's the start of the semester for a lot of schools and The Fora are remarkably quiet.
Compared to what?
The academic subreddits I've checked on have fewer new threads per day than we do and they have many more members. Those subreddits don't have the long-running threads that already have thousands of reads and keep floating to the top of each forum upon already having a community here for those long-running threads.
The old CHE fora was not nearly as active as some of us remember from many years ago.
However, looking at the publicly available statistics, we're getting reasonable numbers of reads for many threads. Pull up a board and just scan down the stats on the side. Even some threads with very few replies have hundreds of reads. We have people who come here several times per week to read, even if they aren't posting. I haven't been keeping written notes, but I'm seeing a wider variety of names as posting regulars than we had in June. We're still picking up new members and we are denying a lot of spammers. That seems to indicate people can find us.
Also, while some institutions may have started, this is prime final vacation time in other places. I agree with Puget that September is really the pick-up time as people either need a lot of support or finally surface from the end of summer.
I keep my ear to the ground. I'm looking for a forum full of smart people where a handful hold court and say things like 'I've had your job and mine too, so I'll tell you how we are supposed to think...about everything.'
Admit it. You, too, have a big curiosity streak and keep checking in on the unfolding story. Otherwise, the question really is:
It doesn't sound like you were very hopeful about the conversation to begin with. I might have ended it sooner. They're obviously not selling books. It strikes me as like...why bother?
Why come here if you aren't getting anything out of it?
Where's your productive contribution to discussions from your unique experience so that we can have a variety of viewpoints?
