Opinion of Xahar

[dead0man]

To be fair, how was BRTD supposed to know that all the socks had already voted by his post and it was just going to be real people voting from then on out.

[dead0man]

I once was using the computer lab back while I was in college. I grabbed a computer right after the previous user left. I found out that this guy was rather careless and had not only not logged out, he was still logged into his email and thus I was able to read it, though of course I didn't care so I logged out.

OMG I HACKED THAT GUY'S EMAIL

Wait, are you seriously saying the two situations are even remotely close?  Seriously?  Think it through.

[dead0man]

Maybe it's time to retire that word on here and just differentiate between full value and reduced value posters. You could then even express their value (subjective judgment, of course) as a percentage. Taking things like post-padding/spamming, deliberate funniness, ability to have an interesting discussion with, associations with other posters etc into account (the ability to ask an interesting question is something, but not rating very highly.) Yeah, I think that's better. I'll try and refrain from using "troll" for people of more than 10% of full value from now on.

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