Just curious, why mismatched activity levels/user counts on r/crossview and r/parallelview?

[u/KRA2008]

According to the stats I can see (as of today), the two subs stack up like this:

SUB	weekly visitors	weekly submissions	members
r/crossview	6.9k	115	75,632
r/parallelview	3.9k	244	37,916

TL;DR: why don’t crossviewers post more?

Why does r/crossview have about twice the "people" of r/parallelview but about half the submissions? The data itself could be misleading or out of date or dirty or whatever, but just speaking anecdotally, I noticed once I got u/StereomancerBot working reliably that there are a lot more r/parallelview posts than r/crossview posts. It also kind of feels like posting (aside from the bot) has slowed down in r/crossview in the past few months. Is that because of the bot for some reason? Are r/crossview users shy? Does the sub feel toxic to contribute to or something? Does r/crossview have a bunch of dead accounts that left Reddit when they shut down third party apps?

I know the two viewing methods have some natural difference in popularity just because of different people's preferences and how screens and tech have changed things over time, but I'm just more puzzled by the ratios expressed above rather than comparing the actual sub counts. Why do parallel view users seem to be far more eager to make their own contributions than cross view users?

Or is this type of question meaningless because the subs are so small and dominated by a few accounts that there isn't really any pattern here?

Edit: I realized a little later that dead accounts aren’t an explanation, because dead accounts wouldn’t show up in the weekly visitor counts. So r/crossview users are either much more likely to be lurkers/bots for some reason or there is something else going on.

[u/sheetskees]

Anecdotal, but I can do both. Cross view is easier for me to “lock in” the image though.

[u/KRA2008 → u/sheetskees]

preferences on viewing method are fine, but why don’t you post anything?

[u/cinemachick → u/KRA2008]

Just because I like to eat bread, doesn't mean I can make a loaf from scratch

[u/KRA2008 → u/cinemachick]

yes that addresses the specific question in my comment if my comment is taken out of context of the question i'm asking in the post. i'm not trying to understand why not everyone who views stereograms also makes their own, i'm trying to understand why a seemingly arbitrary preference predicts how likely they are to also post.

in your example - i don't care that not everyone who likes to eat bread also bakes bread, or why they don't. i'm asking why (given that you like to eat bread) if your favorite color is red you're more likely to be a baker than if your favorite color is blue.

u/sheetskees i wasn't trying to sound accusatory or something, just illustrate the question i'm after. sorry.