I think you're right. I think they're happy just posting their views out into the void and getting no response.

One reason I wanted to highlight the community elements of SN, is because that's who I wanted to attract. Sure, people like us (I was also sat hunting, at first) can come to see the value of this community.

The risk was that there are orders of magnitude more Minds users and a flood of them could irrevocably damage Stacker News, if the wrong ones were attracted.