The number of sporadic geniuses observed is falling.

If you keep browsing this board you are only stroking your ego by proving dropouts, loner undergrads, or larpers wrong about simple topics.
The threads that have interesting and complex starting topics simply get meme, irrelevant, or pseud responses.

What's going on here? Is the number of active /sci/ users falling and taking away fringe smarts or is the space diluted with fools?