Hi Shawn, You got that right about the number being an indicator of something,,,too much time on the computer. At least I can say my teaching on the weekend is matching my time looking at the screen so that's not too bad. Sure felt embarassed when I first saw the number. Hey, I'm just a lowly s&g nut with a prediliction for random sculling drawstrokes. From all the postings I've seen there are a lot more experts amongst the "amateurs" than whatever constitutes a "professional". Table saws and band saws still scare me. -cheers-lee
: Hi Spidey,

: I look at the Top 10 about once a month, just out of curiousity. I passed Lee
: once last fall. Guess I just "had to" be #1 at something, just
: one time! The Top Ten list, though, was also a good 'wakeup call' for me
: to stop stretching coffee breaks to post everything I could think of! As
: someone said a long while ago, Shawn fit into the 'Where do they find time
: to make all these posts' category! Was I spending WAAY too much time
: posting, as opposed to building boats or paddling them? I won't tell!

: I think it's a neat indicator of a person's activity--when someone is really
: fired up and has a lot of new ideas and building new things, they post a
: lot, and it's cool to see the indication of that (like you now, or Mike
: Hanks or Mike Allen about 6 months ago).

: I also appreciate Ken Finger's comment. I haven't answered a lot of questions
: recently, unless they call for everyone's comment, or seem to go
: unanswered for awhile. I'm definitely not a bottomless source of
: information--I just answered a lot of questions for awhile because I hit
: those same questions myself, just a year or so before the people who were
: asking them. With the exception of a few people, like Nick, Lee, Joe,
: Eric, and Grant, we're all just amateur builders, learning from each
: other. Some of us are just a few months ahead on the learning curve, but
: that's OK, since some of us started a few years ahead of everyone else!

: I really like the idea of a bio section that Nick mentioned.

: I like the views counter--if someone asks a tough question, and it has a lot
: of views, but few responses, you can see that there's a need for some more
: discussion there.

: My vote: I like all of the features. If everyone out-voted them, I wouldn't
: be too upset, though. It's the great discussions here that are most
: valuable.

: Shawn