User blog comment:Lalainee/My Wikiversary? Huh. That was quick./@comment-1874924-20110320231642

Happy wikiversary, Lal. I'm glad we've gotten to know each other, and I'm flattered to have the only noncompetition story among the stories that you blessed by name.

I suspect the biggest reason your first year seemed to go so fast was that it took you about 7 months to reach 200 edits. For the last five months, you've averaged (according to your Contributions Log) about 100 edits per month, which is a perfectly respectable level of activity for a nonwriter.

As for the number of comments on your blogs, a high of 57 comments is nothing to sneeze at. Only three of my blog posts have reached 40 comments, and most seem to top out at 20-25, with some having far less. (My own wikiversary post last month got only a dozen comments.) And your self-description of "doesn't contribute much to the wiki" depends a great deal on how you choose to define "contribute".

Believe me, I understand you dilemma about commenting (or not) on stories. In my case, though, it's not so much force of habit as of not always having anything to say. I'm also more inclined to comment on in-progress or recently completed stories than on old stories.

As for your being "the moderately active chick that we all know and (hopefully) love", I have a trivia tidbit that pertains to the shortening of your username to "Lal". There was an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation wherein Data built himself an android "daugther". He named her Lal, which (according to the episode) means "beloved".