I can simplify it for you.
If a poster has a long green line under their name, that means they have a high reputation, and their posts are informative, accurate, poignant, interesting, and sometimes entertaining.
If a poster has a long red line under their name, that means they have have a very low reputation, and their posts are loaded with fake news, misinformation, lies, omissions, are incoherent, nauseating, and are rarely worth the time it takes to read them.What you're omitting is that YOU assigned the vast majority of my "reputation" line. Drawing attention to my "long red one" (
blush) is nothing more than a testament to your pettiness.
Let people click on your Thumbs Down icon if they want to see a much-broader sampling from GT members, and how they feel about the quality and accuracy of YOUR editorial droppings.
I do believe you've finally achieved #1 status – can you point to any active member who has a greater number of the these drooping hand digits? No? Then congratulations -- you are #1 Thumbs Down...!
And you STILL have not explained -- via the customary facts and citations -- your rant that constitutes this thread. It's one more in an unending stream of deluxe nothing burgers, from a man-child who pollutes the board each day with weak headlines, thereby obscuring better political discourse from others.
Like I said.. this is not the fake news group. Anybody with a functioning brain knows who the credible people are. As for the "thumbs down" a single idiot can (and do) spend hours going through every post without ever reading them and clilcking on thumbs down. There is NO time delay between thumbs down.. and you you vote Thumbs down on the same person over and over again without ever picking on anybody else. Thumbs down means pretty much nothing. The person who is the #1 recipient of Thumbs Down is also the person with the highest reputation of all members of the entire site by far. Isn't that fascinating? It is impossible to hit someone's reputation over and over again. After one hit to someone's reputation, you can't hit them again for several hours.
People who are not assholes may notice who initiates most of the threads. That would be me. I start a thread with a valid point, and instead of getting meaningful responses, I typically get my post shit on by idiots making ad hominem attacks (Ad hominem seems to be a popular word these days). I am them forced to squash the moonbats making these inane, insane attacks filled with lies.. and at the same time put up with an onslaught of childish "reports".
I actually do have a complaint that has not been addressed yet.
If someone posts an outright lie, such as intentionally misquoting someone.. that is a problem.
When I point out the lie, and instead of correcting the lie, the person who lied still denies that they lied.. that is a big problem.
When that same liar goes on to call ME a liar, that is an intolerable problem.
When that same person posts 3 different versions of the same attack - none of which are true, and still refuses to admit that they lied, and continues to call me a liar.. that is how flame wars begin. In the past, in other internet chat forums such as on the UseNet.. I've gotten into nasty battles with people which got to the point where people were threatening to kill me, a few were stalking my house, one made the mistake of ambushing me at a restaurant, etc. What really ANGERS people is when they are wrong and I point out their errors over and over again. When they can't win a debate, they resort to threats, lies, etc.
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