Hell, I've been listening to jazz for nearly thirty years now and I still don't pretend to know shit about it!
I'm with you! Someday hope to have half as much knowledge, experience and good grace as Sangry, Nessa, brownie, Christiern, Larry Kart, Litweiler and a host of others here.
I don't think coming in here swinging your dick around is really the way to go about joining a community. We all say stupid shit sometimes, and when I look back over posts from years back (or even worse, articles I've written from years back), sometimes I get a little green in the face. But hopefully, we learn from this experience.
We all enjoy this music, which is why we're here, but thinking about it - even when there's no music on the stereo - is what separates the experienced from the inexperienced. Having all of Wynton's usable contributions (and then some), or anyone else's for that matter, isn't necessarily the path to get you there, though it is part of it.