Post Analytics
I believe that I have the highest posts-per-day of any member on the forums, barring people who've only been on a week or so.
I have 5.38. Following that comes WoF with 4.75, Scrabtrapman with 4.29 and Xavier with 3.84. My research was hardly thorough, I might add.
The reason for my interest was that I noticed that I had recently "overtaken" several veterans in terms of post count, and I would find it rather naive not to believe that posting so much more than some highly intelligent and eloquent people had some impact on the average quality of my posts.
Compounding this was a brief scouring of my User CP and my last 100 reps. Sofar as I can see, not a single one is anything I'd consider "contextual wit", a response to the situation at hand. They were all either memes, references, reposts in Bits 'n' Pieces, observations of what things in pictures sort of look like, an awful lot of bandwagoning and PUNS. It seems to me that the only way I can be funny now is by latching onto somebody else's post.
I'm not looking for sympathy, and I doubt I would find any if I were. I'm pointing these things out because I intend to post moderately less starting from now, and would appreciate it if people would call me out when I'm being boring. Otherwise I fear I might never improve.
I don't want to keep growing with the subconscious perception that everything I say is worth listening to. That's just like being drunk. I hope that by trimming away some of the crap, putting back on the intellectual pressure I felt here in my early years when I was leagues out of my depth, and getting back into reading and good TV rather than endless video games and webcomics, I might start to recover some of the wit and snark that got me accepted here in the first place, rather than just coasting downhill on my established reputations and relationships.
Or maybe I just spend more time online than everybody else. Maybe I should get a Twitter account.
tl;dr I should shut up, starting n-