Most of the people who used to idle in irc don't play the game either. Or talk about it.
Stick around, you'll get it after a bit.
For me, my playing to posting ratio is pretty consistent. I haven't posted here in a long time, and am only posting because I've put in a few hours recently, since I got my new rig together and can actually run the game.
I play, I post. I don't play, I don't post. I never got sucked into OT.
I found that even when I see eye to eye with the peeps here about the game, which this is the best UT community I've found, their ideas and opinions on non-game related stuffs was none too impressive.