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I'll tweak it again when I get a chance. Basically, I was trying for a bimodal distribution, but didn't quite get it right. ;-)

(does that EVER get old?)

So let's get this reply straight. . . . you're actually saying you're deliberately playing mind games with us on this whole rep thing????

as an exercise in achieving a sort of statistical nirvana with two bumps instead of just one?

you're the MAN, dude!!!!!!!!!!

Pretty sure the little winky face showed he was poking fun at kicky. Don't think he meant it seriously. Could be wrong though. It has happened. I once thought I was wrong then I found out I was mistaken.
 
looked for a post by Marcus and found this at the bottom of one, gloating about neg repping Vinylone:


Trout answered by an apparent claim to have pos rep'd this as a thank-you for dinging VO. . . .

Well let's see if I can rep it now.

yep, I pos repped him for gloating about his significance:



QED.

I think I also proved the case against myself . . .

For someone that professes not to care, you sure do spend a lot of time looking at your rep and talking about everyone else's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FIOjLwwj-U
 
For someone that professes not to care, you sure do spend a lot of time looking at your rep and talking about everyone else's.

Everyone should pos-rep me for how little I care about my rep.
 
Trout answered by an apparent claim to have pos rep'd this as a thank-you for dinging VO. . . .

If it's any consolation Trout lied. He never pos-repped me. Bitch got me all excited about a 12 point bump and left me... for some reason I'm having high school flashbacks.
 
For someone that professes not to care, you sure do spend a lot of time looking at your rep and talking about everyone else's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FIOjLwwj-U


like I said. . ..

I think I also proved the case against myself . . .

and thank you for the video. Isn't that a great song!!!
 
If it's any consolation Trout lied. He never pos-repped me. Bitch got me all excited about a 12 point bump and left me... for some reason I'm having high school flashbacks.

Well, maybe it could be a credit against the otherwise valid charge that maybe I do care too much about the whole rep thing that I actually didn't even object to the idea of you getting those 12 points from Trout, and I will try to make up the loss to you somehow. . . .

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Marcus again.

but I'll have to wait a few days. . . . .
 
Yeah I think they need to lower the threshold for that to 5 instead of 10 "spreading it around". Also need to raise the amount we can give out in a 24 hour period.
 
wow. More people care about their sacred rep than I thought. three negs so far:

You can't fool me. <3, Trout.
Since you want red rep
.

Stupid post

and a trailer neg rep:

stupid post

So, Trout, I didn't even try to fool you. Be careful you don't just assume things. Yes, I hated you for a day the first time I did this bit about my fascination with the whole concept of repping in here. Got over it, though. Let's see if I can find a post I can pos rep you for:

sorry, I'll have to come back in a few days to do this:

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to TroutBum again.
 
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Disagree.

Unless I'm one of the 5 people in your repping cycle.

Actually I rep a lot of different people. There are some posters that come up with rep-worthy posts more than others. Sadly you are not one of them.
 
Actually I rep a lot of different people. There are some posters that come up with rep-worthy posts more than others. Sadly you are not one of them.

LOL Ouch!

(You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to LogGrad98 again.)

Sorry dude.
 
Yeah I think they need to lower the threshold for that to 5 instead of 10 "spreading it around". Also need to raise the amount we can give out in a 24 hour period.

The threshold has a function in limiting the effects of some big swingers, as does the 24 hour limit. Could do the same thing by deflating the rep power ranks I suppose.

I originally had misgivings about how intimidating rep could be on folks who just want to have some productive exchanges with controversial topics, but my experience has been that it's only true in the less substantial topics where it looks more like highschool cliques at work.

For serious thinkers, I find I get just as much pos rep from those who respectfully disagree and productively respond to my ventured opinions.
 
The threshold has a function in limiting the effects of some big swingers, as does the 24 hour limit. Could do the same thing by deflating the rep power ranks I suppose.

I originally had misgivings about how intimidating rep could be on folks who just want to have some productive exchanges with controversial topics, but my experience has been that it's only true in the less substantial topics where it looks more like highschool cliques at work.

For serious thinkers, I find I get just as much pos rep from those who respectfully disagree and productively respond to my ventured opinions.

That's why I stay away from intellectual discussion as much as possible.
 
The threshold has a function in limiting the effects of some big swingers, as does the 24 hour limit. Could do the same thing by deflating the rep power ranks I suppose.

I originally had misgivings about how intimidating rep could be on folks who just want to have some productive exchanges with controversial topics, but my experience has been that it's only true in the less substantial topics where it looks more like highschool cliques at work.

For serious thinkers, I find I get just as much pos rep from those who respectfully disagree and productively respond to my ventured opinions.

Whoa wait.....we have those?
 
Here is something that would be cool. If you click on the little star on one of your own posts you see the rep you got for that post. I would like it to show the rep other people got for their posts when you click on it to rep them. So I click on the star for trout to posrep and see that 4 people already negrepped that post (probably the norm for trout). Would be interesting.
 
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