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Originally Posted by alltherage

My point was that the forum wouldn't exist if everyone left, therefore the people here DO have some say in what goes on.

It would still exist, it just wouldn't be very interesting. I never said people didn't have any say at all, I said it wasn't a democracy in response to you calling for a vote. Of course we consider all input, just because it's not acted upon does not mean it's not considered.

There's no way to remove skill or negative skill 5 seconds after it's given?

Of course there's a way, but that would be a manual process. Someone isn't going to go over all the skill given out all day long monitoring it.

If the intent isn't public humiliation, then why is it a publicly visible reprimandation?

The comment isn't public, just the rough showing of the sum total. If it was private there would be no reason to pay attention to it at all, no behaviour would change. This was all discussed at length.

If it didnt go unnoticed, it went unactivated. His skill was grey, and I don't remember him getting a red square out of it... unless my reasoning was simply not good enough for him to get it, or he got the skill days after i recommended it.

Both of which are equally possible, but you choose to complain about it first before considering the alternatives...

I'm trying to have a real conversation here without getting adversarial about it.

I was assuming that he makes money off the site because that is generally the purpose for having sites like this.

I've already addressed that:

Having a discussion is fine.. making comments and judgments about someone else's actions based on your own assumptions is wrong. You have no idea what kinds of things Bingo has gone through to provide this free service to you. Gratitude usually involves not making broad generalizations, at least IMO.

Calling something ridiculous at the outset pretty much sets an adversarial tone.

You've made your point about the skill system. I hope I've helped clarify a few things for you.