I was joking. I don't piss everyone off.

Wait a minute, are you blaming me for what's wrong (if anything) with the forum?

I'll take your word for it.

Oy, your poor script. Recording the rep in a thread where tinyE is present. That script will get dizzy from all the up and down! :-)

I'm not the most active poster, so my data should be bland and uninteresting...

Yay, I feel like a guinea pig. Please don't kill me at the end of the experiment!

I'll join in. Statistics are fun, yay! :-D

please use me as a test subject :)

will be interesting to see the results. Pity most of the recent threads are complete "I am am up my own arse" bullsh*t that i cannot be bothered to answer (in my most humble opinion of course).

xyem +1 good sir for your inventivness :)

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Let's see if I can make this clearer (he says, and then rewrites this post about 5 times).

tinyE (for example) is losing rep. There are two reasons why this could occur.

Firstly, he could be losing that rep incidentally. Perhaps a lot of his recent posts have had downratable content so as people downrate those downrate-worthy posts, he loses rep.

Secondly, he could be losing rep because someone (or some people) are trawling through his old posts and downrating all of them, regardless of their content.

The former is what you call "the popularity contest" and is acceptable because the post rating system is being used as intended. Those posts would have been downrated regardless of who posted them.

The latter is an abuse of the post rating system intended to reduce his rep.

When it goes from "it just happens to be tinyE making the downrated posts" to "we downrate these posts because they were made by tinyE".. it becomes harassment.

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