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anasporn, the adult community as a rule is set up on the "trade hard links" or "join my top list" or other exchanges that are very direct and to an extent very unnatural. We are also all very competitive, and we don't often cross link one to another in any other method except those two link paths above (and the variation on top lists such as blind links, thumb redirects, etc). We very rarely talk with each other in public in natural terms, everything is hype to sell.
Many bloggers (including myself) are very hesitant to even allow comments. That is a very clear indication that we don't want to talk with people, just talk at them.
Non commercial community blogs get away with it because these people have no other goal than to make their hit counter spin and get nice comments from their friends. There is no profit motive to make people want to keep traffic to themselves, no fear of exposing their readers to other blogs. We fear each other getting the sale so we tend to not be very much into sharing.
With WP 2.0, I am starting to open comments on some of my sites to see what happens. I am doing more cross posting and "link to blog" stuff that seems to set up a comment cross linking which I think would help. I use my personal "what I am doing and how I feel blog" as a source for many of these links, as it is entirely natural for me to link to stuff I am working on.
I am not sure what to do beyond that without it becoming very unnatural.
Alex
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