It's gotten to the point where I'm very tempted to start up a thread in Meta about the decline of post quality forum-wide, because the only good posts I see lately have been coming from Legendary members who most likely aren't bots or members using AI to write the most bland, generic shit possible--and I've always tried to reserve my sMerits for members below Legendary status. 

On top of that, my discouragement has led me to do less reading than ever before, and that's not a good thing.  I love this forum, warts and all, but man....we're not even talking about warts anymore.  We're headed toward a condition that the best team of dermatologists in the world couldn't even identify much less cure.