As part of another project, I was analyzing some of the statistics gathered by this server on the posts you all make. It occurred to me that I could use these numbers to make a rough guess on the amount of time that is collectively wasted posting here. Based on my numbers, here's what I came up with:

On average, posts here take 121.2 seconds to make.
Over the last month, 12,921 posts were made for a total of 1,566,025.2 seconds. That works out to 26,100.42 minutes, 435.007 hours, or 18.125 days.

If I apply a pretty wild guess that time spend reading versus posting here is at least three to one (meaning that total time spent is at least 4x the amount spent on each post), we get a staggering 72.5.

That means that 72.5 days worth of time are spent collectively in a month by our membership using this forum.