Good news!

We've recently been listed on QBTC

Voting Gridcoin, Awesome tech behind it.

Gridcoin Research 3.4.7.6/MSI=28.4
Leisure Upgrade
(Mandatory for TestNet)
 
- Fixed issue where client was constantly probing coin age.
- Added LastPORBlockHash to showblock. (Note: this will only populate going forward, after 8-13-2015).
- Fixed historical calculation problem in list rsa Lifetime Research payments field.
- Removed unecessary logging with fDebug=true on.
- Added Earliest Payment field to list rsa (Note: The earliest possible payment date is the day we switched to the new block index - around July 4th 2015, so payments before that date
are not counted in Lifetime payments nor earliest age).
- Added Tx Count to list rsa to make it easier to reconcile list lifetime <yourcpid>

If that's the case then I'll try be more active over here as well then.

I'd vote if I could but for some reason I can't.

I wouldn't say you're dragging everyone down rather you're just mining very inefficiently. Probably should look into why you're getting such high invalid rates. (probably due to overstressed GPU/CPU depending on what you are mining with.