Well, you wrote this about AB:
You were the victim of exclusion bullying as a child, weren't you. Conspiratorial AND envious...
Now you know that you don't have to be any of that to say something obvious and unfair went on and that it singularly benefited the group to which you belong. That's why I tried to move you and others off that sort of counter, noted it's like a rich kid making a joke about inequality. Even if you only benefited in the floating boats sense, at best it looks ungracious.
What's really absurd in all this is that anyone takes ultimately meaningless reputation on a website full of strangers so seriously.
I guess it depends on how you look at the word. Seriously enough to game the system as though it mattered? Or seriously in being disappointed by that? So I suppose it varies.
But all that is beside the point of it being Knight's site to operate as he wishes.
Sure is. I think I made that point a bit ago when I wondered aloud why all the soots members weren't automatically installed in the HOF. I mean, literally, why not?
I'd bet both of us know the answer to that, which is that unless you ultimately want a site consisting entirely of a small number of ideologically aligned people and a handful of oblivious crackpots you have to give those outside of the inner circle something they can claim fairly and squarely. That's something you protect, because sure it's pinball, but if you're putting a quarter in you still deserve an untilted surface.
So who is your/their complaint really with?
With whoever compromised the system, because it begins to seriously undermine the thing I was just talking about. And while the number isn't much to me, the joint here is and things that detract from it bother me, at least enough to note them.
I'll meet you halfway, though. Would it make you/them feel better if I deactivate my rep? I think I read that can be done.
I'd never ask or want you to, but I don't think you can do anything about turning off the number. I looked around and couldn't see the option a while ago, before any of this happened, when Knight (I think) was musing aloud about the possibility of doing away with rep. Like I said, just ride it out. Whoever gamed the thing has gotten the value that's left when that happens.
- but you have to check regularly! I just never log out most of the time, and it seems to keep you as "
