Re: I call bullshit
A drop in ranking doesn't necessarily reflect readership falls. It's just as likely other sites are increasing readership more rapidly.
Anyway, it's unlikely anyone, even El Reg can quantify the overall man years of experience in the readership but there are most definitely commentards posting here with many decade of life in the IT field. It's approaching 40 years for me so even assuming an average of 20 years across 300,000 users, that gives 6 million years of experience to draw from.