I have the opposite fear, since, though through diligence and asking a lot of dim questions with unimpeachable grammar I stand now on the vertiginous brink of sainthood, I shouldn't like anyone to mistake me for an authority. I sometimes write stuff that makes sense; occasionally I write what I think is very sensible and then some other monk corrects me, so that I and the person who asked the question both learn something. What this leads me to is the view that it's the *thread* that's interesting, not just the individual post. I find the dialectic as educational as the steps. There *are* some monks whose individual posts I read with special attention, but that's not because of their XP, but because I've learnt over time that they make sense.

§ George Sherston