Truthfully, it's not just AARs. Look at the numbers of comments we get - either in the forums or directly on the articles - for any of our articles or podcasts out there.
And it's not just us. Go look at PaxSims and see how many articles have comments on them. Go look at Big Board, or No Dice No Glory, or Real and Simulated Wars, or any of the others. At least half of TPA's articles don't have comments and they're one of the biggest sites in the space. RPS gets a lot of comments but their audience is in the tens of thousands.
So yes, it can be disheartening, especially when we've got some articles that are
specifically asking for audience feedback. Folks like Gary & Moe that get a lot of interaction are specifically interacting with their audience in a live give-&-take so that's totally different than what we're doing
We get few comments on the links to our articles we post to other social media, whether Twitter, or FB, or CSW, or BGG, or anything else. Even when we ask for those comments, we don't get them.
So I hear you - I definitely do. It can be disappointing. But it's also not unique to us, so don't take it personally