Reputations

[Lhunardawen]

(Wow. In a few months' time I would have probably dated five BDers or so. I'm that irresistible, huh? )

Now, now, Lalwendavem...I know nothing about this. Honest!

But then again, this could be of your doing. Whatever your motives are, I have no idea. That makes me concur with Eomer that a mind control technique or a drug of some sort is being utilized by these two. We're being violated without us knowing it, big bro!

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Well, as is demonstrated by this system, we are clearly pawns of The Barrow-Wight. But we already knew that. I would never have guessed that we'd all become the playthings of Lal, davem, and Sauce though.

I can take it though. I'll have my vengeance sooner or later. *hunts for little green boxes*

[Meneltarmacil]

The Saucepan Man is currently dating a horrible Dunlending. So that means both he and davem are dating Lhunardawen. Guess there's more than Canonicity for them to fight over now.

Lalwendë, meanwhile, is going out with a creepy Nazgul. Not sure how they rate compared with horrible Dunlendings, but I'll bet that their Black Breath is probably going to be a problem.

And I have recently become welcome at Aragorn's court, by the way.

[Bêthberry]

Ladies and Gentlemen of the fora and esteemed fellow Barrow Downers, it is with great sadness that I make this announcement.

For the foreseeable future, when I rep you, I will be unable to provide the high number of rep points to which you have become accustomed upon receiving a rep from me.

"No!" you gasp. "Why? What have we done?"

"Nothing," I say. "It lies beyong my control and 'tis nothing you have done."

"How so, she who once was waylaid by a forgetful Maia?"

"I have been diminished."

GASPS! Cries of "Noooo!" and, truth be told, a chortle or two.

"Beth, you haven't bounded over the Fellowship poll and taken the One Ring for yourself, have you?" cried one frightened voice.

"Nay, not so. Would Beth succumb so easily to one of Fordim's polls? Has she ever even voted on one of Fordim's polls?"

"What then," cries Fea of the White Horse and several Werewolf games?

"I have been smited."

"Smited? Is that like slaked?" cried one wit.

Wisely, then, I take the hint and decide to drag this soap opera out no longer.

My fellow Downers, I have been negative repped, secretly, in the dark hours of the Downs over night and while we all slept.

Forsooth! I have earned the enmity of someone. Someone who has not come forth to make his (or her) name known, but who choose to object to my humour nonetheless. And left a question. Now, how can I answer this question if I don't know who left it?

Originally Posted by Rep Anon

'don't suppose these websites explained' - I would suppose they did. Why would you blindly suppose otherwise?

And t'was this post which earned my doom

What can I say? How to explain to thin air? To a wraith who wanders without leaving much trace?

But, to close: Fellow Downers, bear with me I say. I will endeavour quickly to earn your accolades so I can continue to reward you for your wit and charm and cleverness and overcome this slighting by one who robbed me of, well, it was less than 10 points actually. But I thinkI did drop a bit.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

You'd make a good politician Bb.

[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

Ten whole points. That's a formidable member you've offended there, Bêthberry. If you're not careful you'll be back to 'getting the hang of it' before too long.

Serves you right for talking posh. Rather than risk an accusation of euphuism through a potentially equivocal use of the indirect question, it would have been more felicitous to employ the more lucid prosody that is a sine qua non of electronic discourse. After all, there are some people who wouldn't even understand the foregoing sentence, which exemplifies limpidity.

I don't expect that putting God in quotation marks helped, even to point out that He was missing His customary capital.

[HerenIstarion]

Originally Posted by The Squatter of Amon Rûdh

Rather than risk an accusation of euphuism through a potentially equivocal use of the indirect question, it would have been more felicitous to employ the more lucid prosody that is a sine qua non of electronic discourse. After all, there are some people who wouldn't even understand the foregoing sentence, which exemplifies limpidity

um... I for one?

Let's try and translate, though:

Instead of talking posh and being accused of pomposity, cause the question there may have been misunderstood since it sounded like having more than one hidden meaning, it would have been more appropriate to use plainer sentence construction, which is one of the requirements when talking over the net. There are some which won't get this one either, though it is a good sample of what clear talking is

There, I hope it is more or less corresponding

[Oddwen]

Hmm...got to wondering last night...if one year of being Dead = one rep point, do those who joined in "1969" have 34 points just for that? Or...not?

[HerenIstarion]

Originally Posted by Bb

overcome this slighting by one who robbed me of, well, it was less than 10 points actually

Just found out - the negative 'power' is half that of the positive. I.e, if you get 9 negative points it means that if you were rated positive by the same member, you would have got 18

Just an info