but yet you still give out a lot of legitimately thought provoking and interesting answers
i am aware of the risk of degradation of the answers, especially because almost every question is one i've answered before, but, nonetheless, i place extremely high value on the phenomenon of the questions page, and before every question answering session i have a mantra that i say to myself, which is that "my new years resolution is to do a great job on questions today". this has nothing to do with new years, and i say that regardless of what time of year it is