John Paul writes:
I have asked for specifics and all I get is "your posts...".
I guess I don't understand the question, because this doesn't seem like something that has to be explained. People build up impressions of you from your posts, which don't seem to reflect a scientific background.
When I was more active in journals and conferences I guess it fed back into my non-professional correspondence, and I would every once in a while receive email replies asking, "Are you a scientist or something?" I guess I've toned it down over the years because this hasn't happened in a while (I don't want to consider the other possibility that rather than toning it down I have dumbed it down through loss of brain cells
), but it makes clear that what you write
*does* leave an impression on people.
--Percy