[Madison]

Originally Posted by RyanMcE

Here is a private message somebody left me while reducing my reputation from -74 to -80: "It's really not appropriate to post private comments that people leave you."

What consequence does what your reputation score is really make, anyway? It's just a ploy for pity, I suppose, as I doubt you'd be complaining if someone reduced things from 900 to 872 or something.

When you choose to influence my reputation, which must I remind you is seen by everyone on the board, I think the people that see that reputation should have a right to know why I have it.

The people that look toward and see a person's reputation have every right to investigate what sort of behavior warrants such reputation. They have available to them myriad options to investigate a poster's contributions to these forums and discern why a person may have a poor reputation.

There is a difference between someone's "right to know" and their desire to know; something you've completely ignored. By posting comments left for you in private in these public forums and doing so without anyone expressing their desire to know about such comments, you're not doing some great service and disclosing information -- you're illustrating your immaturity as you grasp for any justification of your childish behavior.

Stop using the supposed "right to know" as justification for your perceived "right to tell." If there's some enormous concensus that your low reputation is undeserved, we'll fix it by voting it higher each time you take the time to make a useful, thoughtful post to the forums here. I don't anticipate that happening.

Any way you slice it, none of the reputation you receive, short of a coordinated, meditated attack on you by many individuals, is unwarranted.

I'll probally still post your name, since that really seems to get you people who care about reputation going hot and thats kind of funny, but the point is, this is not some sort of secret election, its my reputation, and when it goes down I think people deserve to know why.

I think people already know why.