over the past couple of months I've been doing more scrolling through threads. not to hate on the chatter, but you guys know there is an irc room ( or was? ) there's been a weird cloud of counting posts for awhile, I've commented on that before, and there's daily cascades of chitchat between a few people and then congrats on how high we've gotten our post count. I like this forum a lot, but this sort of stuff detracts from the good vibe and is kind of repellent rather than attractive.