Re: The Reputation Hilarity/Insanity thread
way to be completely fuckin off-topic
For this post:
http://www.ulmf.org/bbs/showthread.php?p=384562#post384562
I was responding on-topic.. People were talking about funny-games, and I was reminiscing on the good ol' days we all spent on that site when we were younger.. But I guess some jack-ass felt one post was just too distracting for his tiny attention span to handle.
I seem to have it balanced out a this point.. I'm getting just as much rep from being useful as I am for sticking my neck out and delivering judgment, at the cost of a few rep points..
Frankly, rep seems like currency to me.. You need to pay a few points to get your opinion out.. The stronger the opinion, the more points it costs. And just like having a job, being useful and helping out, gets you more points, that you can then spend on either delivering justice, or giving a strong important point in a conflict or conversation. Getting red bars is pretty much like being in debt, you're obligated to be more useful, and cut down on the opinions for a while till you get back on your feet financially. But when you've saved up enough points you can start spending again.
There's some hard workers with lots of points who simply don't have time to spend them, and then there's the REALLY rich folk, who got so much points via mysterious circumstances that they pretty much have the freedom to do what ever they please without ever running low on points, or having their position threatened.. I guess it's kinda line tenure.
Anyway, rabbling aside (This will be the only part some people actually read apparently), I've learned that if someone with high rep annoys me, I simply positive-rep them with a snarky message, since neg-repping anyone with more rep than me will result in a bad situation. That's just how the big-fish/little-fish system works.. Can't get around it.
(inb4 more people neg-rep and bug me about how they "think" I think I feel oppressed, when I don't... Silly people...)
