It happens every once in a while. I think posters are given a response priority level in lots of people's minds. Popular ATOT personalities (Nik, DainBramaged, Ryan, Red Dawn, Amused, Moshquerade, KarenMarie, Zim Hosein, and several others) almost always get responses because people think it's cool to talk to them. They're the celebrities of ATOT. Then there's everybody else, for them it's a crapshoot. On the one hand people might be interested in what they have to say, on the other hand they are easily ignored because no percieved ATOT popularity points can be gained by talking to them. Same thing happens in real life with popular people, I think.