The trouble with becoming numero uno in this particular category of behavioral addict is that it sends you straight down the road to carpal tunnel syndrome, dementia, eyesight problems, a sore neck and shoulders, and a loss of whatever real life you may have once had, as you join the ranks of those who seriously need to "get a life", as the saying goes...

Thus it is a crown that no one can hold for very long, in my opinion. Or if they do, they are being extremely foolish.

And that may be why former Mudcat verbosity champions sometimes have subsided into doing a great deal of "cut and paste", while others simply fade gradually from the scene...or disappear entirely.

It might just be that they smartened up and "got a life" while there was still time left to do so! ;-D