This is why I find your character to be lacking. Just because something is easy, doesn't make it any less poor form to do it.

Actually, you responded to the question in such a way that it could easily be taken as a "yes", but you could then turn around and say "I didn't actually say yes! I was just trying to insult you!". You have attempted to weasel out of admitting you are wrong (by changing what you were calling "crazy" halfway through a sentence!) so I am being cautious about giving you the room to do it again.

I demanded a clear answer and your attempts to avoid giving me one demonstrate which of us is being obstructive in this "debate".

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So, your claim that "no-one would create 100 accounts to downrep someone is a crazy conspiracy theory " is based on "it is pointless" and "a waste of time"...

...and you just admitted that there is a condition which can cause people to do things which "are pointless" and "a waste of time".

Are you going to admit that you were wrong to call it a crazy conspiracy theory now seeing as you just removed both your arguments for doing so by admitting OCD exists and what it can cause?

The incidence of OCD is about 1-3% of the population according to and 1% according to the [url=http://www.ocfoundation.org/prevalence.aspx]International OCD Foundation. So providing being a gamer doesn't bias that incidence rate any.. 1% of the people that use the forums have OCD. Not unlike a particular person with a boatload of alts that has already been discussed..

And don't say "but it would only take 5-10 accounts to do it!" as a defense because it isn't one. People with OCD usually take actions beyond what is reasonable to achieve a goal. You want your hands clean? You wash them once. Someone with OCD wants their hands clean? They wash their hands over and over and over and over until they start causing physical damage.

Would you call that a crazy conspiracy theory? After all "no-one would wash their hands so much that they'd hurt themselves!" seems like such a reasonable assumption to make...

Besides, the research I've done seems to indicate that there is actually a use in using 100 accounts to downrep someone. It would raise how many people needed to uprate a post to remove the low-rating, possibly well beyond the number of people who are even aware of the down-rating. So if you want to be absolutely sure (like someone with OCD would) the person you are downrating stays downrated, volume is the way to go!

Your belief that "no-one would create 100 accounts to downrep someone because it is pointless and a waste of time" is negated by your belief that "OCD exists and makes people do pointless things that waste a lot of time".

So, are you going to admit that you were wrong to say it was a crazy conspiracy theory or are you going to continue jamotiding?