Much as though I hate scroll bombs, most of the posts here could be contained within a shoutbox reply. Certain people (Hi Blandy, hi Joo) seem to have forgotten how to make a well formulated post and just drop a tiny turd into the thread at scatter gun rates. Most of the people doing this are top tier posters and I can only think they're tired. They're certainly putting very little effort in.
what's the competition? Goobering spam drones like admong? Benzo? HOlipindick? Lily the sloth?
I'd say my effort is directly proportionate with the value of these targets.
It's like I've said for the past 7 or 8 years or so. You can only be creative when you have material worth going against.
When your readership contains little more than the collective IQ of a Thalidomide Sea Monkey creative writing skills are lost and a simple sledgehammer approach is enough posts become little more than a slack wristed backhander.
Garbage in, garbage out. There should be a thread and a Mod willing to monitor it that only contains worthwhile material. 99% of the membertship here wouldn't get a word in.