I am posting this comment by Steve Schmidt as a test for DU. Do you want the harsh truth or

[MineralMan]

27. I was not being snarky. I was asking questions.

You and I have been members of DU for almost exactly the same amount of time. In that time, I have posted quite a few times. So, if you were around regularly, you would have seen my posts, mostly in General Discussion.

You can judge my credentials from my posts. There are plenty of those to examine, if you wish. Or not. We all get to do as we please here, including asking questions of other posters. Those other posters are free to reply or ignore such questions.

So, I'm not going to attempt to answer your question. It would require a lot of words to do so. I'm not in the mood to write about myself today. I invite you to read every one of my posts on DU since 2008. I am the sum of all of those posts, for better or worse.

Sadly, the person I asked earlier have very few posts to read, so I don't have a good picture of him or her.

Edit to add:

The OP has been free to answer my questions, but has not reappeared in the thread he or she started. On the other hand, I have been back to this thread several times, since I promised to wait here for the OP's response. That's what I do. If I post, I return to take questions, as I did for your reply to my post in the thread.

I'm an active participant here on DU. I'm here. I post. I reply. I answer questions when people aske them of me. Perhaps those are the credentials you are looking for. Or, perhaps not.