Get yourself noticed. It's fun.

With so many new members, I think it's time to make an appeal I have made before. At the moment we have 572 members, but after posting initially to introduce yourselves or to get the answer to a problem most of you go silent. This is a shame, because it means that it's always the same people posting all the time, and that can give the wrong impression. We are not lofty experts handing out the gospel from on high. We are all supposed to be testing exactly the same and in theory very item we look at, we should all come up with exactly the same result, pass, pass and advise or fail. Now that's never gonna happen, we are all human. But the more people posting their ideas on this, the more discussion there is, the more we even out the differences, and the better we stick to the standard we should have. If you have a question, ask it. I can almost guarantee there are a dozen other people who want the answer to your question, but haven't got the nerve to ask either. You think it's a trivial question maybe - ask it anyway. People might laugh at you? That's true, and I haven't got an answer for that one, but I can tell you that I've embarrassed myself often enough, and I'm still posting.
I know that if you post an opinion, you are setting yourself up perhaps to be shot down. Believe me I know. It can be a daunting prospect, and personally I was a lurker for weeks before I picked up the courage to have a go. It is however worth having a go.
Perhaps you see a query you know the answer to, but someone has already replied - doesn't matter, have your say and add support to that answer. Disagree with the answer already there but you're worried they must be right because they post on here all the time? Have you seen some of the howlers we regulars have made? Put it right . Have a go.
Perhaps you worry that your spelling is not good? That might sound like a dumb reason to some, but I know a lot of people who get too embarrassed to write anything they don't absolutely have to because of this. On here we still want to hear from you.
If you don't have anything else you need to say at the moment, you must know a joke or two. Anything at all.
572 of us, ladies and gents, fill the pages. Have a chat in the lounge, there are a lot of empty seats in there, and quite frankly I'm bored with the people that post regularly, (sorry guys, I'm just making a point - honest) so I want the rest of you on line instead. TALK TO ME. All of you. For any reason. Or no reason at all, just because you're here.