I think you should give some thought to this.
Yesterday, i clicked on a fellow TalkMarket contributor's profile and saw that he had written 233 articles with 0 comments. My own shows 26 articles, 29 comments.
I just wonder how that poor contributor would feel if he found out that TalkMarkets never intended to make a profit and "all of his hard work" was for naught.
And that is how you lose the payment argument. You might take that one "up the ladder".
Some contributors don't allow comments on their articles, or even delete them. Not sure why, but I've seen it. So it could be by choice. Perhaps they simply don't want to deal with it, or are worried about negative comments.
While that may be true for some, Mr. Boswell is plain wrong about this. I checked the authors he mentioned in his other post and they do have several comments on their articles. Boswell has several too, but looking through the most recent ones, they seem to all be negative, essentially calling him crazy. It's just sour grapes.
I do wish this site had more commenters, but the site requires a lengthy registration process before you can. So be it. I come to read anyway, I rarely engage in conversation. Too many crazies out there and it's too easy to get sucked into an argument that is a waste of time. I left Facebook for the same reason.