members being posters.

[Emily of Halifax]

I think it takes people to sometimes build up confidence in posting especially if they are new to forums I remember when I first started posting on a forum the only topic I posted on was about the weather until I built up my confidence.

I think the key is to appear to friendly and welcoming and not to judge to much once people see that it is a friendly place they will confident in contributing.

The one thing that you will never change is that there are people that contribute and people that just lurk