Reply #50: There are other groups that have less traffic than this, and

[kwassa]

have not been shut down, or even threatened to shut down. These groups take almost no bandwidth in comparison to just the daily flow in the Lounge or GD.

I think many go to Religion and Theology for the action that this forum gets, the side forums might be a little too specialized for people, and many participants are reluctant to pony up money to support DU.

I also think that people that basically agree with each other tend to talk less than those that argue with each other. Someone reading something they agree with might have a silent assent rather than a vociferous counter-argument. That is the way threads generally work. When there are nothing but like-minded people in a group, there is often very little discussion. It is not unique to this group at all, but true of many of the new forums on DU, and in other Internet groups I have participated in.