I refuted that quite crushingly
Like a cubic meter of aerogel dropped from ten feet.
--delivered with, as you would have it, "a suffocating, revolting style of self-importance, arrogance, disdain, and pride"...?
Well, importance is something that, like popularity, can only be assigned from the outside. The most important people in the corners of iwethey that I routinely visit (if importance be defined as those who either stir the pot--or piss in the soup, in one case--most vigorously, or whose contributions are the most thought-provoking) would be ashton, marlowe, boxley, dmarker, inthane_chan, simon_jester and several others far more significant, for good or for ill, than I am (we two are just a couple of dueling mosquitoes by comparison). As to "arrogance, disdain and pride" --what can I say? You bring out the best in me.
cordially,