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tinyE is a poor example. He is an antagonist. He has gone on sprees where he posts intentionally offensive things and begs people to downrep him. He simply enjoys the attention.

Regardless, I honestly interpret *both* of your examples as popularity contests. Sometimes it's an *un*popularity contest, but that's the same thing. In no way can I see any of this as harassment. It's a little meaningless number by your username. That number going up or going down cannot possibly be interpreted as harassment.

99% true but I didn't post anything offensive yesterday and I lost a lot of points. I can't argue with the rest of your post.

Yeah, I didn't figure you'd be offended by any of that. ;)

I seem to recall you setting your title as "Attention Whore" for a significant period of time.


That said. I'm not sure why some of your old "attention getting" posts that you made days ago, couldn't continue to get downvoted even though you didn't actually post them yesterday.

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http://www.gog.com/redeem/AY***BKS ( 554 backwards )

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Thank you +1

You got that to work? What were we doing wrong?

The whole code was backwards. :)

Shit :/

My friend, I feel you tipped your hand here too early. You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! To be more specific, your stats would be better if it were a simple stat gathering project, rather than something with an agenda.

Maybe I've misunderstood, I am quite drunk...

There we go, -1!

Except all those reasons you gave are why tinyE is the best example. He is subject to both having his posts downrated because of their content and because someone is downrating his posts regardless of their content.

I can unravel your argument of "it's just a popularity contest" here in one simple statement. It only takes one person to not like you.

Really.. just imagine if I decided I didn't like you and felt it was okay to do it. I have the ability to downrate (and keep low-rated) every post you have made or will make on your account in a maximally efficient way... with little initial effort and no ongoing effort at all. Within 2 months, I'd have your rep in the negatives.

It isn't a popularity contest when the one person with the biggest guns wins.

Except it isn't a meaningless number because there are some people here who give it meaning. It gets used to stop people from entering groups and contests. That's a meaning. Enough people use it that GOG added it to the PM page due to the community requesting it. That's a meaning. Some people, in a trade, will demand the other person send their side of the trade first because they have low rep. That's a meaning. In most cases, people have just flat out earned that little number under their name (for the record, I'm don't feel like I'm one of them :P) and for some, that is meaning enough.

I've already stated that it isn't the number going down that is interpreted as harrassment. It is the abuse of the post rating system against a specific user that is the harassment.
I don't understand why having an agenda would affect the statistics I get back from this.

I'm not looking to prove anything one way or another. Just providing a service and mentioned that if the data does point out something unusual, that I might investigate further and why.

The entire wet t-shirt contest paradigm contradicts this. :-)