Re: The Reputation Hilarity/Insanity thread New version
Your two posts regarding criticizing someone else posts just taught me
something.. Maybe that's the reason why rep exists.. Not as a deed-measuring
device, maybe not even as a dipstick for finding out how "important" someone is,
but merely as a way to help alleviate the stress of feeling offended or insulted
at something someone else said, by giving you the nice easy option of quietly
pecking at them from a far distance, as opposed to clustering up a thread
with counter-posts and angry rants.
Because it's been less than 20 or so posts after the rep is gone, and petty in-thread arguing has gone up 200%.. Because why PM someone over your distaste for what they say or how they say it, when you can publicly shame them?
Hypocrisy aside, I'm gonna step back from all this now, because the last time rep was changed and I got snarky about it on the one thread in the entire site where being snarky is basically allowed, I was temp-banned for being snarky anyway possibly just out of spite, and I don't wanna be caught with my sail open in a shit-storm.. (At least any more than I've already gotten)