My guiding theory is that there are about 20 to 30 chatters out there in Paltalk who know about The Gaslight Cafe chat room (including all its previous names over the past 2-odd years), and who appreciate it in varying degrees. These chatters are reasonably intelligent & interesting conversationalists (in varying degrees & styles), even if I disagree with many of them and frankly don’t like a few of them.
These otherwise relatively intelligent chatters have at least one relevant character flaw: At the end of the day, they prefer to spend most of their time in inferior mediocre rooms full of convivial drivel & blather, with only rare moments of actual substance, rather than in the comparatively more intelligent & reasonable atmospherics which The Gaslight Cafe tries to cultivate. As a consequence, they spend most of their time in those rooms, rather than in The Gaslight Cafe. By now, these 20 to 30 chatters know about The Gaslight Cafe and its goal of creating a viable alternative to the rooms we already have on Paltalk — and yet still they choose not to try to help build it.
In short, these 20 or 30 chatters don't participate in The Gaslight Cafe enough to help it grow. They either never come in; or only come in once or twice in a year's time; or they drop in for a while, then don’t come back.
As long as these 20 or 30 are not present, the room can never "catch fire" with a fire that is long-lasting. Most of the time, the "fires" we have in the room are short-lived, as when in attempting to build a fire in your fireplace, you don't have any durable logs to use, but only newspapers and maybe some used egg cartons or (if you’re lucky) a Fed-Ex box or two. Sure, you’ll have a brief flare-up of light & warmth, but after an hour or two (at best), the fire goes out and the room sinks back into relative silence. When the room only has very few chatters in it — maybe 8 or 9 — all it takes is for 3 or 4 to suddenly leave and it’s like all the air gets sucked out of the room, or to use another metaphor, like our little canoe suddenly got hit by a rock and begins quickly filling up with deadly water.
This ongoing situation of short-lived "fires" maybe once ever 3 days (at best) happens so often because, simply put, there are not enough chatters to draw from. One cannot expect to generate ongoing lively conversation when there are only 3 or 4 quality chatters actually present at any given time (and more often than not it’s more like 2 or 3). Sure, a lively conversation may spontaneously ignite at random, but it happens rarely. If there were a reservoir of 20 to 30 chatters as a constant, the chances of sparking a lively conversation would be more frequent.
Note: Those 20 to 30 chatters don't all have to be actually raring to go at any time, as though they were "on call" — but the mere fact of there being 20 to 30 makes it more likely that a small but sufficient number among them will be ready to dive into a conversation.
Why are these 20 to 30 chatters — who know about The Gaslight Cafe and more or less appreciate it — not coming in more often to help it grow so that it becomes viably sustainable as a medium-sized room, thus making it more likely to have more interesting conversations more regularly?
That's the 6 million bitcoin question. The only answer I can think of is that they prefer mediocre rooms that are already full of people, and don’t want to go to the trouble of helping a new room grow. I could understand that feeling if we were talking about just any old new room created by some stranger we don’t know. But again, for the umpteenth time repeating myself: These 20 to 30 chatters swimming around Paltalk KNOW ABOUT THE MOTHERFUCKING GASLIGHT CAFE AND ITS DREAM OF CREATING AN ALTERNATIVE ROOOM TO THE USUAL CLAPTRAP OF HATTER’S ROOM, ANDREW’S ROOM, PETE NITEMARE’S ROOM, LORD VOO’S ROOM, ET FUCKING CETERA.
And yet STILL they choose not to help create and build it.
Chat room dynamics: The case of "The Gaslight Cafe"
After the "Vaccine" kicks in , there wont be any more chatters