Warnock's dilemma, named for its originator Bryan Warnock, is the problem of interpreting a lack of response to an online posting. The term originally referred to Usenet posts, but has been applied to mailing lists, blogs, Web forums, and web content in general. The dilemma arises because a lack of response does not necessarily imply that no one is interested in the topic, but could also mean for example that readers find the content to be exceptionally good (leaving nothing for commenters to add). On many internet forums, only around 1% of users create new posts, while 9% reply and 90% are lurkers...