For Reps Sake!

[SteadyMercury]

Kitty friends

 

[SteadyMercury]

Kitty asking for head rubs

 

[SteadyMercury]

Kitty teamwork with dog:

 

[Peach]

 

[shart_attack]

Got Peachy, Mercury and Jackson.

All the juice I got, for now.

 

[Peach]

I have known some fines beagles, but lived with a Sheltie I will never forget.

 

[Carla_Danger]

I have known some fines beagles, but lived with a Sheltie I will never forget.

Cute!

 

[Intolerant]

Out of reps and out of time. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

 

[Bloodrock44]

Got 8 or 9. Night

 

[JWBooth]

Time to get busy peeps, get me to 10k before rep goes away....

 

[BluesMistress]

I have known some fines beagles, but lived with a Sheltie I will never forget.

Cute!

I Love Shelties. I have one. His name is Hendrix or Mr Jimi. I had another one Django. I lost him a few years ago. I'm still heartbroken. I will forever love & miss him with all my heart. Shelties are great dogs. And so beautiful....& they shed...

 

[Statistikhengst]

Since all the free reps threads have reduced the value ( significance ) of everyone's reps. a better barometer to go by to ascertain one's appreciation from others is to look at their Thanked amount (number) to Times amount( number ) in Posts.

I don't participate in free reps threads but do often rep others who do, just in other threads.

Last week I had my rep power reduced by 4,700 reps for personal reasons. I do these things. I actually opted out of reps in `12, for 71/2 months, coming back into them in June `13.

From what I gather the significance of rep in the past was largely based upon it being "hoarded" by one group and used to "punish" those who were outsiders. The current more open "sharing" of rep amongst everyone has resulted in raising the rep of all participating posters irrespective of their positions.

Since the rules governing rep are the same for everyone how it is perceived is up to the individual. I do agree that if one wants to take the "measure" of how a poster is perceived by their peers then a single metric is meaningless. Time since they joined, number of posts, number of times they thanked and been thanked all play a part.

Ultimately though none of those matter. What matters is who you are as a person and how you treat others that you interact with in this forum. Showing respect, kindness, empathy and understanding that each of us are only human and we all have our good and bad points is what matters in my opinion.

So that makes this thread a place to come and share, be silly and funny, be happy and to make others smile. Given the choice between those and rep I know which I would choose.

As Anais Nin observed, "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

I see redistribution of reps as socialistic and entitlement-minded. But that's just me. I'm a conservative.

When I first joined, I was confused and puzzled by the Reputation system. So I asked a prolific, former poster, who is a schoolteacher, what the significance of reps was and she replied, they are a source of pride. That confused me, as I saw them as a competition and didn't like it. I tried to opt out of them but you couldn't then. Now you can. So I decided not to participate in the game but so many posters kept sending me those reppies that soon I felt guilty by not returning the appreciation and so it all began.

So these days, in order not to be number one in reps, I often let a few go. Being number one, is not important to me, nor my goal. Were it important to me, I would not have just had my reps reduced nor would I have opted out of them for that period of time. I did like being opted out and came back into them because several posters asked me to and because USMB had become a better place to be, than the previous two years.

Being opted out, though, feels as if you are not in the loop here and I missed that. Benevolence aside, reps make me feel good to distribute, though only for worth, not for expectation.

Now I have to get ready for work....**laters** sweethearts.

Well, now that people have laid down on Freud's couch over something as earth-shattering as rep, let me tell you why I do it:


Cuz it's fun. And I don't delve into socialism or fascism over it.

You see, life is short, and it's good to have some fun now and then.


That is all.

 

[Noomi]

Getting reps is fun, returning them is also fun.

 

[jon_berzerk]

i bet

 

[Noomi]

time to get busy peeps, get me to 10k before rep goes away....

noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Esmeralda]

 

[Esmeralda]

 

[Esmeralda]

 

[DriftingSand]

Why am I hungry all of a sudden?

 

[SteadyMercury]