Of course, I find the whole matter a bit surprising. 

In my own defense, I will assert that I believe that I have a pretty strong tendency to either quote the actual text of other members (when I am responding)... but I am surprised that the estimated number of words adds up to nearly 5x my ballpark estimated words per post.   So I estimated myself to have around 50 - 100 words per post, but your analysis shows that I had around 353 words per post (of course, including whatever text I had chosen to quote within my posts).


I will admit that there are some days that I get pissed off at myself for having had spent more time online and typing than I would prefer, but in the end, I am not being coerced in regards to how I choose to spend my time.. so in that respect, my typing of posts has been a voluntary activity. and of course, I would prefer that activity to have had been more beneficial (whether merely to me or to some others) than burdensome.

I am not really measuring how long it takes me to type my posts, but for sure, if research has to be done or information compiled that is not already within my database, then some of the posts could end up taking a considerable amount of time.. not like some of the posts of some other members.... for sure, we have members who set forth posts that are like pieces of art...... and so sometimes such posts can inspire a lot of thinking from myself, and surely members here are on all kinds of levels - so some posts might be tailored to members who are different from myself in terms of their newness (or lack thereof) to bitcoin or their technical knowledge about bitcoin (or whatever the topic of the post/thread).

Probably, there have ONLY been a few instances in which I have really gotten irritated about how much time I was spending to respond to one or more posts, and probably the most frustrating of times had come when I had typed out a post, and for some reason the post ends up getting lost (power failure, posting error, user error, or some other mistake).**  Losing the contents of an already drafted post can be very frustrating, sometimes... I am glad that it has not happened to me too many times. 

**I believe on more than one occasion, I had accidentally clicked on the refresh page button while in the middle of drafting a post, and that does not go over very well in terms of being able to recover the draft of the post.  On the other hand, in my experience, accidentally closing the page while in the middle of drafting a post usually has not resulted in losing much if any of the drafted text by just reopening the draft post from the browser's history.