What’s “the10cR”?
Simple… “The Ten Comment Rule“.
It works like this:
I post something that I think is of value (and here I’m not referring to short updates or quick announcements) and theeeeeennnn…
…I don’t post anything else until there are at least 10 comments!
(We might actually start it out at 5 because there aren’t so many readers at present, and I’ll come back and remove these parentheses when I think it’s warranted. Whaddayasay?)
As I point out on the homepage, one of the primary aims for putting up this site was to start some sort of dialogue amongst EFL teachers, and those interested in EFL.
If there’s no participation, no dialogue, no discussion, no feedback… then I’m simply wasting my time here. Now, Lord knows I love the sound of my own voice (!) as my friends and associates will testify 
, but that’s in the context of having a conversation. I have plenty of things to say, but I’m not fond of talking to myself.
Neither do I talk at folks.
What I like more than just about anything else is tossing around ideas.
Won’t you join me? 
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If not, please go elsewhere. Seriously.
I know that sounds arrogant, but I don’t care. I don’t expect everyone to comment on everything.
And I realise that everyone is busy, busy, busy.
I recognise these things.
I’m busy, too.
I read a bunch of blogs and don’t feel the urge to comment most of the time.
But if the readers of this blog are not actually willing to chime in on occasion and then actually do so(!) from time to time, then it’s a clear indication that I’m talking to myself and wasting my time. And if I am, that’s okay. At least I find out sooner rather than later! 
Hence “The10cR”.
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Credit Where Due: This idea comes from php Programmer, Robert Plank. His emphasis and impetus is somewhat different to mine because his blog is primarily a sales vehicle for his books and php-scripts. But the principal is still the same: the desire for readers to engage with his blog. Thank you, Robert, for your interesting idea. We’ll see how it goes!
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Update: I read either an article or a blog post a little while back about this kind of thing. I’m sure it’s a perennial issue for most bloggers, particularly when a site is new, or doesn’t have many subscribers, or doesn’t get promoted much, or all of the above…
I can’t remember where I read it or else I’d post the link here. But the point was that bloggers should be striving for their readers to leave quality comments.
And I agree with this, too, to some extent… so after reading that article it made the idea of arbitrarily setting a number a little silly.
Nonetheless, I can see Plank’s original impetus: He wants to know that people are reading and thinking about the stuff he shares enough to react to it. Any simple “off the shelf” stats package can tell me how many people read a particular post, but what I’m hoping for here is that what I have to share prompts some feedback.
Was the post interesting? Why or why not? Useful? Same again. How would you do it differently? What did you like/dislike? Anything you strongly disagree with? Got a question? Something to add, perhaps?A link to something relevant you stumbled across?
That kind of caper 
