I was chatting with Caydel and he commented that he noticed the Search Engine Roundtable doesn't get as many comments has he would have expected. We get about 10 - 20 comments per day, which is a nice amount, but not like some other blogs - even like this one, that can get 10 or 20 comments on a single blog post.

We have a section that shows the most recent comments, it looks like this:
Search Engine Roundtable Comments

But to address his question, why don't we get a ton of comments? I believe the main reason is because since day one, I didn't want the forum owners and moderators to feel that I am poaching on their communities. The whole premise behind the Search Engine Roundtable is to report on the most interesting and popular search marketing threads. We did not want to take away from that discussion, but rather point people to it.

Virtually all our articles start with a link to the forum thread and then end with "Forum discussion at [Forum Name Goes Here]." The last piece of advice we give, is go to the forum thread, read it and debate the topic there. Of course, we have comments open at the Search Engine Roundtable, but we do not want to take away from the discussion at the original forum thread.

I hope that clarifies that question a bit. Does it?