User blog comment:Wetstream/Bothered/@comment-4751506-20131109173005

You are seriously really right about this Wetty, and I realize that I never really take the time to find uncovered stories to comment on - let alone comment on stories at all. When I first joined the wiki, it was more of a "There's something new in Wiki Activity? Let's go read it!" and it would get a ton of comments (or maybe that was just me, having no other Internet obligations and just flocking to everything new and obsessively reading it as though my life depended on it), and then it would die down as other people made new articles. It ebbed and flowed and everybody got comments and stuff. And when the Wiki Activity began to dwindle - I random page'd the days away. And I commented. And I ended up contacting authors on their other websites because I wanted to continue their stories and / or "act out" what they'd written (I'm looking at Shigura's Into the Wild: A Play over here).

And now we've sort of dissolved into creating articles every minute with maybe a few sentences on them, and then starting another one, all with the same "Please comment on how u think this will turn out! Thx" and that's not what we need. We need commitment to articles, so that people frequently see the same pages being edited in the Wiki Activity and other people will begin to comment and that will draw the attention of more users and the page will get more comments and constructive criticism.

This is really important, guys. We need this. Please, go out of your way to Random Page and comment on what you find. When you're normally going to go back to those popular articles and comment again, Random Page. Find one of those undiscovered gems. Comment. Make it popular. Wetty doesn't, Arti doesn't, and I don't want to see the same articles in the 'Most Popular,' page.