[malandrew]

What you say about averages is very very true.

Linus Pauling once said "If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away."

which can be extended to:

"If you want to have good HN comments you must have many HN comments. Half of them will always be below average, and what you have to learn is which ones never to post."