Do you think a 4% re-recommendation rate is acceptable? That seems pretty low to me.

Are people getting anything out of the posts that they see but choose not to personally recommend?

The system tracks clickthrough and uses it in agent rankings, but not in any of the publicly displayable stats. I'm sure your clickthrough rate is higher then your recommend rate.

Habits differ from user to user, but I usually only wind up recommend things I comment on somehow. One of the features I want in the system is a "slient" channel for recommendations that you don't want to draw full attention to, but to signal that they were (erg) noteworthy. I envision this working by only displaying a line for the headline and the various function links on one's memestream rather than a full title/text display.

You do recommend a shitload of stuff. I do read a fair amount of it.