Three dollars and some change

Oh, certainly! If the infinity of stories you wade through are like grains of sand, and ff.net is like water (sticking the sand together and stopping it from blowing away in the breezes of the intarweb), then: a little = "ooh, exfoliation!"; a lot = "arg, help, quicksa--" *glub*.

The trick is getting out before you're sucked under.

*here endeth the improbable and egregiously extended metaphor*