Does SP really have that many lurkers?

SW is better known and older. However, there's a lot of things wrong with it and they don't hesitate to perma ANYBODY. The staff is often rude, and even to my casual eyes Adura plays favorites; in a thread where they were trolling women (all women) Adura told one of the trolls named so and so to message him or he'd have to perma the guy. In SW most people just get permaed, and for MUCH less.

While I really don't have many great things to say about the second generation of the SW administration team (save for a couple moderators), Fiel has already voiced his desire to keep forum-bashing to a minimum. However, I don't believe the thread you're referring to was meant to be taken for anything more than humor, crude as it may seem.