I'm sorry that this thread confuses you so much, fixer27. Perhaps if you read the whole thread, your understanding could be improved?
No. Anonymous negative points are fine, just as they are. The big gripe I have is confined to anonymous negative Reputation Point dings combined with anonymous negative comments. If someone isn't man enough to publicly discuss/debate/argue their disagreement with me, then why should they be allowed to disagree with me from secrecy? It seems very unnecessary to me.
Sorry, again, that you're confused. An anonymous negative ding is fine. My contention is that an anonymous negative ding, combined with an anonymous negative comment, should be required to come with that person's BladeForums membername.
No. Gee, it's a drag to have to fight against your confusion. I'm stating that if someone is allowed to give a negative ding along with a negative comment, then they should be required to sign it, and therefore take responsibility for it. If they cannot stand up, front and center, to take responsibility for their negative comment, then what right should they have to make it?
LOL...you are so confused that I'm questioning why I'm even bothering to reply.
I don't think that I should be required to pay in order to find out who is leaving me anonyomus negative Reputation Point dings combined with negative comments. Since the original negative ding came along with this negative comment "At lest he supports this place." I daresay that I wouldn't have received the negative ding and comment if I were a paying member. This is why you should have read this thread before you piled on.
This point that you've made, however, brings up another consideration. Perhaps all of the moderators and paying members in this thread, disagreeing with me, aren't supporting and defending the coward, but, rather, they are supporting a paid member function. The argument going: "If all Registered Users were enabled to see who was leaving them negative dings along with negative comments, then that would be one less reason for them to pay for a membership that allows them to see who is dinging them and leaving negative comments."
No one has stepped up to give me that as a "reason," rather than all of the insults and dings I've received, but, it seems like feasible explanation.
No. I don't give a rat's derriere about my Reputation Points. Do you
really think that I'd have started this thread, let alone continued this thread for so long, if a few/many red chicklets bothered me? Reputation Points are cheap, and otherwise useless things. I'm willing to lose Reputation Points in a fight over honor. Cowards have no honor. They take cheap shots then run away and hide in anonymity.
Indeed, I don't think that there's any necessity for the Reputation Point System at BladeForums, at all. However, I'm not attempting to get rid of the Reputation Point System, I'm only trying to change it so that there are less hard feelings involved. If someone cannot discuss/debate/argue their disagreement with me, in a forum, then why are they allowed to take cheap shots in the form of an anonymous negative ding combined with a negative comment? Why does BladeForums allow, support and defend cowardice?
Sorry, again, that your confusion seems to be blocking your understanding.
I don't give a damn about BladeForums having the Reputation Point System, only that the current way that the Reputation Point System works, at least for "Registered Users," allows cowards to anonymously negatively ding people and leave negative comments. I can't see how allowing cowards to take pot shots with impugnity is good for BladeForums, but it is being allowed and being defended.
fixer27, up until now, I'd had a very favorable impression of you. That is one thing that I'll admit to having been wrong about.
Before posting to any thread, with as many misunderstandings as you have with this one, you should first read the thread, then post. I feel that I've made my position crystal clear in this argument, yet your post leads me to believe that you haven't even read the thread.
I don't know what your definition is, of "pander/pandering," but I don't think I've pandered to anyone in this thread, let alone to receive a Reputation Point for it. Maybe I'm "pandering" for dings? That seems to be the way things are going.
As far as what "suspendatur per collum" has to do with this thread, I don't know. What on earth does "let him be hanged by the neck" have to do with anything? You may want to explain why you've interjected violence into this thread. This thread hadn't degraded that far, until your post.
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