[thelist] What's causing a psychological block?

[Peter Small]

This week I put up the first fully working prototype of my Web site. 
Altogether I had something like 1000 visits.

http://www.stigmergicsystems.com

When I did a Web log analysis, there was a satisfactory spread of 
hits all over the site and about two thirds visited the most 
important part of the site - where I explain and demonstrate a 
"Kempelen Box".

So far, so good. However, when I test to see how many people actually 
tried out the "Kempelen Box", to see the agents and see what answers 
the box gives to questions, I find the results shockingly poor.

Where am I going wrong? What psychological block is stopping people 
playing around with the box? Or, is the whole concept so boring that 
nobody bothers to see how it works?

I'd appreciate some help . Especially from those of you on this list 
who visited the site this week.

Don't try to spare my feelings. Be brutal if you see obvious flaws.

Thanks.

Peter Small
Author of: Lingo Sorcery, Magical A-Life Avatars, The Entrepreneurial 
Web, The Ultimate Game of Strategy and Web Presence


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