The reason I keep saying it, is that you (and others) keep misusing the terms. I can understand why you'd be annoyed if rep were capped, but I frankly still can't understand why you're annoyed that rep POWER is capped.
So the only possible reason you can imagine for me capping rep power is because I feel that the rep system is dumb? I guess I don't get what you're saying here.
Sorry, I'm again not following. What does the "this" in your first sentence refer to?
And I've never claimed that you've abused high rep power.
One of the aspects of rep is the ability to cap rep power. It's built into the rep system. I don't understand why you think that there is some obligation on my part to use ALL THE OTHER PARTS OF THE REP SYSTEM,* but not to touch that particular part. How does that make any sense at all?
I feel just like you that the rep system "was designed to promote healthy and interesting content.. as well as funny and entertaining". That's exactly it. So whenever I tweak the rep system, it's part of a constant quest to better fulfill that goal. And after using the rep system for a while now, I truly feel like having a rep cap will help accomplish that. In fact, as I think I've mentioned, I wish I had set a rep power cap much earlier, and even now I think the rep power cap should be lower than it currently is. I've refrained from setting it lower in large part because I didn't want to get any more grief from you. But since you're giving me grief, anyway, I think I'll just set it for the value I think will be best going on from here. <sets rep power cap again> There. I shouldn't be changing that any more.
And for what it's worth, I'm not trying to demean you at all. That never even crossed my mind. I'm just sick of your constant complaints about this aspect of the rep system. And I truly do not understand why it's such a big deal for you to have a higher rep power than anyone else. You haven't ever explained that in a manner that I have been able to understand. In your response just now you said simply that you care about the rep system, which makes sense, but you didn't indicate why THIS PARTICULAR SETTING within the rep system makes you so upset. And you never have, to my knowledge.
Also, for what it's worth, we didn't add in the rep system. It came pre-installed with this version of the board software. It's been here since day 1.
My handling of this has been FAR more reasonable than your handling of this. In my humble opinion.
I'm not even sure what that means.
* except the ability to give arbitrary rep power to admins. I guess you'd prefer I didn't use that part, either.
