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50??? Had to look up where you live... all makes sense now.
No meetings of more than 2 people in the UK and even then they must be more than 6' apart. I lived dangerously this week; two of my neighbours were chatting, 10' apart; I stopped and joined the conversation (also from 10' away from them both)  Could have been arrested, though...
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You tell jokes? That's a laugh.
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I just got a (-4) downvote for a question I put in . . . in 2018.
Please help me do this[^]
"Curioser and Curioser"
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Some people are slow readers...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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I opened CP and thought something was off...
Couldn't quite place it, but now I know.
It was those -4 on your rep 
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Possibly as punishment for the OP for this thread, I got a fresh new (-2) added !
Also, three +5's. No - make that 4x5.
Just in case anyone is wondering - I didn't do this as a way to quickly catch up to OG.
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Liar, you just got an upvote
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Also, how does any other circumstance make me a liar? The -4 is a fact regardless of what else follows.
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But when it is qualified with the Just clause, it becomes time-relative; equating to "the last thing that happened"...
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If you're talking about time-relative, you must consider that the egocentric view of the world (all time revolved around you) is not going to work. Time relative per the time it was posted. You missed that - you'd have to preempt my post with an up vote (too late) - assuming I even accept your logic of "time relative" when in fact it was a statement of fact. History doesn't change just because time passes (i.e., the actual events).
You are, posting ex post facto, is relatively too late.
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Slightly - but only slightly - off-topic:
Do people generally care at all about their "reputation" or "rating" in internet fora?
Isn't that like striving to be politically correct because being politically correct is politically correct?
Over the years, I have at least twice been threatened on my life for the opinions I have aired (that I remember, there may have been more): "As soon as a war breaks out, I'll make sure that you are among the first to be shot!". I have aired my opinions about how we ought to educate children about intimate actions, as opposed to how we really do it, with people telling that they will report it to the police so that they can take actions against me and my thoughts (I was anonymous that time as well).
I did have a (non-anonymous) personal blog, 25+ years ago, and ten years later a guy found it on Wayback Machine (aka Internet Archive) and did report me to the police for the opinions I had aired in that blog. I was called in to the police, and told them that it would be a pleasure for me to stand in court and tell that I will not cancel a single word in those blogposts, but stand up for all of it, even if that means a prison sentence. I never heard anything more from them... (I guess that if I had been dragged to court, I would have to explain the disclaimer heading every one of them, stating that "This is my thoughts of today. I reserve the right to become wiser with time" - and they would have put heavy pressure on me for becoming "wiser" in the sense: More politically correct. And tell the world that my former thoughts were wrong. But even today, I still stand behind at least 99% of it.)
I simply smile at condemnations, thumbs up and thumbs down, reputation points and that stuff. If people care to comment on what I write, that pleases me, whether it is disagreement, agreement, contradicting my claims or supporting them.
My funniest period was when I in one (semi-) technical forum wrote entries under two different nicknames: Several times, other writers used my arguments under one nick to knock down what I had written under the other nick, "Look at what xxx writes, he knows what he is talking about!" One nick was "adopted" by one group of fighters, the other one by another group, and I myself could defend every word I wrote under both nicks.
Sometimes you want to send a very clear, but very unpopular message. (In Norwegian, there is a way of speech: To throw a lit torch into a gasoline store. I don't know if that is valid in English.) You know that the wild hordes will come racing against you. You can't worry about your reputation points in such situations!
(Like earlier today, when someone were complaining about all the security issues with the Norwegian corona app, and for that sake most similar apps: I wrote a response pointing out that we did have a phone/data network that was a lot more secure, where none of the mentioned security attacks would have succeeded - but we rejected it, replaced it with TCP/IP-based solutions. We could have stuck to OSI based solutions, but we did not. ... Even 25-30 years after The Great Network Wars, oldtimers get so upset that they are set frowning if someone daring to suggest that The Victor maybe was not best in every aspect. Youngsters see any argument against their beloved Internet technology as flat-earth arguments: We left those non-internet misconceptions several generations ago.)
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Member 7989122 wrote: My funniest period was when I in one (semi-) technical forum wrote entries under two different nicknames: Several times, other writers used my arguments under one nick to knock down what I had written under the other nick, "Look at what xxx writes, he knows what he is talking about!" One nick was "adopted" by one group of fighters, the other one by another group, and I myself could defend every word I wrote under both nicks.
I guess it isn't surprising that a truly masterful troll would be a Norwegian. 
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You miss the fun of it all. Do I really care that OriginalGriff has perhaps twenty times the points I do? Mine are better points!
The above should illustrate it.
It's also a mechanism, at least with respect to the lounge and Q&A responses, to see if anyone was interested in what you say (even a down-vote means someone thought a response was worthwhile - and they may even reply).
If it's keeping score with anyone, it's is with ones' self. Alternatively, if you choose to ignore them, you do get replies (like this) but, like cooking, isn't a little added spice part of the experience?
As for your experience? The world is full of stupid people. As I (and others) have often posted in many ways, there's no cure for stupidity.
The question is - will you let it dictate how you live your life? Spoil the fun? One could, for example, take your entire post as an example of "political correctness" in that you're now "above such concerns."
Full circle.
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It's a score system, and to an extent it can weed out the "reliable" answers from the "total idiot" answers - if someone has a good rep here, then that's probably a sign that he does know what he's talking about (myself excepted, of course: all my answers come direct from a Magic 8-Ball). If he has a poor rep, then it's likely he's spamming, or trolling - or new and will get rep fairly quickly.
Rep also expands what you can do: the "Privileges" tab of your member page (click your username in the top right) shows the possibilities.
But it really shouldn't be taken seriously - it's not actually important to your lifestyle.
Unfortunately, there is no conversion rate of rep to actual currency.
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Fortunately, and I'll keep this confidential, if we removed all the point you get from replying to Q&A variations on "not doing their homework" and similar cut/paste sage advice, you'd only have about 17 points.
Let's just keep this observation between us - no sense causing a panic.
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17? Woo hoo! I figured I'd be negative!
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Member 7989122 wrote: Do people generally care at all about their "reputation" or "rating" in internet fora?
Not sure if you're being facetious or not. Why do you think people chase Facebook 'likes', or post on Instagram, or tweet at all?
Some people's credit rating could be in the dumps, but as long as they get their 'likes', that's all that matters to them.
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Another thing I simply ignore:
tl;dr
In particular when this is followed by heavy criticism of something far down in my post.
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Your rep history works? Mine has just shown a blank page for a couple of years now, so I can never tell if I got up or down votes once the "My Answers" page scrolls 'em off the bottom ... "nobody ever looks at page 2"
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It works if you have the patience to refresh the page around 30 times or so. 
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Mainly, it works by hovering over the point count in the upper right and seeing the total.
Last month, roughly, it appeared for a while and disappeared , again.
Currently, I usually start the day with a blank screen, but refresh it periodically. Nearly every day it eventually shows the actual stuff. This will persists through numerous refreshes. Typically, the next morning, it's blank again upon refresh.
It's working now, for example - another up +5 and another -2 for that old post.
As you know more about more computer stuff than I - I'm sure you can figure out what this all means.
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A lot of data, mixed with load - the query to fetch the rep history data ends up taking too long and the SQL connection times out.
So as you do more here, you get less reliable history, and as the number of active users decreases, you get a successful update.
My Cat gets a full history every time ...
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We get those here (timeout problems), too. One is the result of SQL Server composing documents and emailing them as reports - they throw a timeout, but apparently, they succeed. Some, due to the many table and hundreds of thousands of records (as table scans) just go too far.
When the users are tired of that, they don't use filters at all and send back so much data that php throws and out-of-memory exception.
Actually, we can beat most of these into submission - but they always find a new way to mess with us. If those run out? Management will request even more complex queries and push the failure back to SQL.
I believe the operent term is "archives" ?
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: I just got a (-4) downvote
It's from Griff because you didn't accept his reply as a solution... 
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: I just got a (-4) downvote for a question I put in . . . in 2018.
It was a fair vote.
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