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I've tried multiple times to but I always end up to reverting to old, bad habits. I also have a tendency to build up a moderate amount of respect over around 500-ish posts only to completely invalidate it with a handful of idiocy posts, meaning that--to use a Snakes and Ladders analogy--I spend weeks at a time advancing in single-square steps only to land on a snake square and be sent all the way back to square 1.
My posts in OU are getting better for the most part (not entirely though), but I get the feeling that a large portion of social thinks that I'm either mentally retarded or a child lol
Eh I could probably live without firebot (it stopped being fun in probably january) but I like posting in Cong even if I occasionally get bad responses, as the quality is just generally better when I'm put into a serious setting.