Why? it's a perfectly legitimate question. He is asking about the percentage of lurkers vs active users. There are just a few handlers/scripts POSTing user content; reply, and submit link. PG can easily take the difference between all the IPs that have hit the front page, and those IPs that have hit the UGC submission handlers.
It's an oxymoron because ppl who don't comment will not comment and answer the question. If the author wanted votes to count as an answer, he didn't state so. Even if he did, does the current vote count of 7 indicate anything? I would have down voted it if I had the power, instead I see ppl down voting mine and the other 2 sarcastic replies. I am saddened to see ppl value dumb questions that pollutes hn and downvote on comments that points them out (mine and other 2 comments).
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