If folks start dreaming about it, it's time to close the whole shady shop and give the goods away free
Should we wait for 2000 limit?
Whatever the outcome, its only certain amount of squares beneath one's screenname. I won't stop loving So-and-So, even if he has [only?] 2 jewels, and if I'm not happy with somebody, eleven jewels won't help them win my respect.
'tis only a game, ladies and gentlemen, don't forget it. After all, we already came to the conclusion (I suppose, as beneath the layers of baby-talk of this thread lodes of thought are at times found) the system can not be objective (look at Squatter, per instance - the moment he stopped posting on regular basis, he rolled down the scale in reputations. Does it mean his thoughts now are of less value than they were before? I suppose, on the contrary - they are dearer as come by rarer!)
Should we care about it
that much? It
is very pleasing to get approval, graciously expressed in words and supported by statistical
points, numbers and titles, but
the point of the forum is sharing thoughts, not statistics. For honesty's sake, I do like getting reputation points, it tickles my vanity, but when push comes to shove, it's discussion and thence
truth what matters, not points one gets for putting words around it.
And final grave note - If I were on the top, I would not dare to post this for the fear of being thought of as hypocrite, but I'm not on the top, and it has it's advantages - freedom! See how davem has only one spot to fool around - this very thread. On the discussion fora he has to live up to his repute
. My very fear I just confessed of is a bad sign - One Rating To Rule Them All, One Tournament To Bind Them - do we really need that?
cheers
PS Now I've reread the post it sounds a bit dreary - the thing 'old cranky windbag' would say, to use the term Kalessin were fond of. Situation is not that bad, really, I just wanted to warn us all (myself included) against 'losing sight of the basics', to use term by Child of the Seventh Age this time
cheers
