# I've lost sight of whom I once was. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-lost-sight-of-whom-i-once-was/341644 "2006-01-26T01:37:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-lost-sight-of-whom-i-once-was/341644/1 "2006-01-26T01:37:46Z")
I’ve been a member here for about four years and in that time I’ve been able to maintain a posting average of about nine posts a day. How the f\*\*k did I manage that? Because now, I can’t, for the life of me, think of anything to post. Can someone remind me who I was/what I was like pre-six-months-ago? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-lost-sight-of-whom-i-once-was/341644/2 "2006-01-26T02:04:18Z")
I have only been following your life through thread titles for a bit, but my guess would be “happier, though bored.” Any advice you need has probably already been given. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-lost-sight-of-whom-i-once-was/341644/3 "2006-01-26T02:17:16Z")
> [@Sage Rat](#): > > Any advice you need has probably already been given. And ignored as many would have you believe. I think I’m beyond external advice… even my in-person friends/colleagues are unable to tell me what I should do. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-lost-sight-of-whom-i-once-was/341644/4 "2006-01-26T03:03:15Z")
Move to China. Reboot. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-lost-sight-of-whom-i-once-was/341644/5 "2006-01-26T15:22:32Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > I’ve been a member here for about four years and in that time I’ve been able to maintain a posting average of about nine posts a day. Lets see here… According to your post count, you have 11,684 posts. According to the math…(365 days per year X 4 years X 9 posts/day) you SHOULD have 13,140 posts! Mister! You are deficient by 1,456 posts! :eek: What do you have to say for yourself? 😃 Seriously, people can change over time and eventhough 4 years ago you were a fine person, I’m sure the person you are today is an even better, smarter, thoughtful and wiser person than you were back then. I wouldn’t sweat it. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-lost-sight-of-whom-i-once-was/341644/6 "2006-01-26T15:25:17Z")
I don’t know that posting rate at the SDMB is a generally-accepted measure of personal worth. ---
**Author:** ![cards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cards)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-lost-sight-of-whom-i-once-was/341644/7 "2006-01-26T16:09:13Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > I don’t know that posting rate at the SDMB is a generally-accepted measure of personal worth. Certainly isn’t for me. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-lost-sight-of-whom-i-once-was/341644/8 "2006-01-26T16:40:48Z")
Well, you could opt for the Classic SDMB Ejection Button of getting yourself kicked off the boards for numerous, flagrant violations of the rules. A month later you can slink back, make amends, kiss the mods asses, and get back to posting. Sure, it’s been done before, but it’s usually _entertaining_, and sometimes all we need to get things back in perspective is a change of perspective (pretty Zen, eh?). Just something to think about. 😃 Disclaimer: Not that I advocate breaking the rules. 'Cause I don’t. I’m just _sayin’_. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-lost-sight-of-whom-i-once-was/341644/9 "2006-01-26T20:42:18Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > I don’t know that posting rate at the SDMB is a generally-accepted measure of personal worth. Absolutely not (says the guy who has been here more than a year and a half longer than you and has a thousand less posts). ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-lost-sight-of-whom-i-once-was/341644/10 "2006-01-26T20:43:25Z")
(Er… a thousand _fewer._ Frak.) ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-lost-sight-of-whom-i-once-was/341644/11 "2006-01-26T20:54:05Z")
You’ve exhausted yourself. This is what someone who joined in March of 2002 should have for a post count. No more. No less. Take a nice bath and let your fingers cool down. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-lost-sight-of-whom-i-once-was/341644/12 "2006-01-26T21:13:04Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > I’ve been a member here for about four years and in that time I’ve been able to maintain a posting average of about nine posts a day. > > How the f\*\*k did I manage that? Because now, I can’t, for the life of me, think of anything to post. > > … But “maintain a posting average” sounds like some kind of sport, or a point-scoring thing (and, yes, i do guess that you probably put it that way as precisely that sort of joke). Isn’t “trying to think of anyting to post” a bit like “trying to go to sleep”, or “trying not to remember that you have chocolate in the cupboard”? Hmm, lousy comparisons, there, maybe. All I mean is that trying to think of something to post for the sake of it is not really easy. I do admit I _have_ done that, on other boards, boards that are smaller, and more in need of input to add interst or comment, but the SDMB will go along fine no matter which members are afflicted with the sudden (and usually temporary) “mind going blank” thing when faced with the “new post” or “new thread” thingy. As a _slight_ tangent, don’t you find sometimes, from a U.K. and Isle of Man-that-has-this-really-funny-relationship-with-the-U.K.) perspective that when one is struck by a news item, or a political or other current event, that the SDMB is often not the first place it occurs to post about it? Try not trying to think of what to post. Celyn, she say, when the poster is ready, the post will arrive. ---
**Author:** ![raindog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raindog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raindog)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-lost-sight-of-whom-i-once-was/341644/13 "2006-01-27T00:01:39Z")
It might mean you now have a life that you previously neglected. 😉 I’m averaging 1.1 posts per day, and my goal is to _cut it in half._ (which will certainly please some…) ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-lost-sight-of-whom-i-once-was/341644/14 "2006-01-27T01:16:35Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > You’ve exhausted yourself. > > This is what someone who joined in March of 2002 should have for a post count. No more. No less. > > Take a nice bath and let your fingers cool down. No, this is! You need to give yours a Palmolive soak, as well… [/Madge] 😃