I try to violate that paradox :-)
...but I acknowledge that it sounds right to me. After a while everyone comes to know how active people (like myself) feel on a wide range of topics. A broad base of available if less often expressed experience injects valuable perspective and fresh material.
Put another way, people like me and Karsten tend to function by recyling other people's good ideas. Listen, filter, integrate, and then repeat with minor variations. Without people for us to listen to, we won't have anything interesting to say. That doesn't, of course, mean that we are in any danger of shutting up, unfortunately. Activity is not necessarily connected with the amount of listening, filtering, and integration. It is just that if you don't do those, then your conversation suffers death by repetition.
So to the many lower volume posters here like [link|/forums/render/user?username=broomberg|broomberg], [link|/forums/render/user?username=slugbug|slugbug], [link|/forums/render/user?username=neelk|neelk] and [link|/forums/render/user?username=dshellman|dshellman], thank you. You keep people like me from becoming (more) boring. :-)
Cheers,
Ben
