New joiners usually lurk for a while before braving a post. Clearly our conversations are insufficiently interesting enough to draw them in!
I remember in the good old days you would get a new name join a thread, usually in flat view, and you would spend the next half an hour working out if it was actually somebody new or just another Fash / Tony C character...
Back in the day, going to the wire on winning the league would have been a massive catalyst for new joiners.
New joiners usually lurk for a while before braving a post. Clearly our conversations are insufficiently interesting enough to draw them in!