The topical sarcasm of a quip about merit in the merit thread goes right over your head, I see.

I’m not your “bruda”.  As for your insinuation that I write for “merit/money/other incentives”, let’s see:

My post history is readily available.  It reflects that when I was a Newbie and the merit system did not exist, I posted the same way—insulted idiots the same way—did most everything the same way, but for occasional fumbling due to being a forum newbie.  If you suggest I’m writing for merit, go read one of my earliest posts as a Newbie:  My debut in Development & Technical Discussion, three days after I started actively posting.  People actually remembered some of my early posts, such that I got a total of +17 for old Newbie/Jr. posts during four days of complete inactivity from 25–29 January.  I think that speaks to the quality of my posting before the merit system existed.

That said, I do enjoy being shown appreciation, and knowing that people find my posts valuable.  The merits and moreover, the intentions of those who award them give me a smile for a job well done.  That’s really the positive purpose of the system.

As for money, my PGP key fingerprints are paying me handsomely for my signature.  The payola isn’t not as good as shilling for sarcasm; but the sarcasm sig ad campaign only accepts Sr. Member rank and higher.  I have already given an “I’ll think about it” to another plum offer for my signature.  But since I’m still thinking about it, and perhaps will be for a very long time, I really don’t see how that could motivate me to write posts.

As for “other incentives”—what?  Pursuit of a pretty girl?  Why yes, I write for that “incentive” sometimes—and I get what I want.

In sum—methinks you’re projecting yourself with your accusation of projecting.  It’s not the first time I’ve seen such things from you.


Let me spell this out for you:  If you post a Communist agitprop picture, then yes, you are Red scum.  Unless, that is, you are someone currently at least age 35–40+ who was born in the former Soviet Union or other formerly Communist-ruled places.  In that case, you may simply be riffing some familiar cultural thing you grew up with, without any political intentions.  Wherefore my apology to Lunarics, when he explained that this was indeed the case.  By available evidence, I misfired on that one.  You may have observed that I rarely apologize to anybody—only when I get something wrong, which is almost never.

If some drooling imbecile from the “Che T-shirt” faction of American college brats posted the same picture, then I would roast him to a cinder.  Commie.  A person’s subjective cultural context can be determinative, in some limited ways not to be over-expanded as academic sociologists tend to do.  (Commies.)


So...  You don’t care that I’d already recanted what I said to Lunarics, for reason of my recognizing that I’d mismeasured him.  In other words, you are searching for an excuse to flame me because you hate my guts.  ok, np


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^^^ Example of a post by someone who will be a Jr. Member for a very long time—perhaps forever.

No, the merit system didn’t stop you from “shitposting anyway” right here.