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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.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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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. 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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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.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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That'll learn ya.
And since it's been 2 years - have you won the lottery yet?
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A few $2 winners, but all in all, my winnings are far below the statistical level they should have.
I suppose I'll just have to settle for good looks instead of money.
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Well, some can claim to have won the genetic lottery. More power to you. 
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Yes - when one realizes they are somewhat further evolved - the next genetic increment - they still have to be nice to mere mortals - play carefully with my toys lest I break them.
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I'll take that as a friendly warning.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: for a question I put in . . . in 2018.
and?
If it got spammed and the spam got nuked, it gets back to the top of the list. Most people don't look at the timestamp and here you go, 2018 turned irrelevant
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That QA post should have been reported and removed. It was not a question, just some lame joke.
Now you complain about it getting down-voted ?
Considering how infrequent your contributions to QA have been over the years, in my view you have no leg to stand on, let alone a soapbox.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Fortunately, neither I (nor anyone else, it seems) asked you.
It's still not too late for you to down-vote it.
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Admittedly, an 'Ad' (barely), but you'll find this dear not only to those of us who grow cacti but a large selection of other CP Lounge Lizards.
An important gardening hint[^]
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Consider, as well, the possible implication if one eats a salad and then acts rashly.
This being said, Agave <=> Tequila and some interesting implications.
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Hi All,
Well maybe not rival but for shear strangeness 'Can I have the floorcloth, I need to clean the ceiling?', all through saying that my brain was going 'are you sure?, well too bad you are on your own'. I all wanted to do was get some cobwebs off the ceiling in the office. Why airtex you can't use a duster.... 
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Use a carbon fiber rod. I just did that as well and harvested a nice little ball of cobwebs. For unknown reasons the spiders seem to be great fans of my old Commodore ST.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Commodre ST? While Sam Tramiel was booted out of Commodre went to Atari and created the ST, I think you meant Amiga, I noticed the spiders I think they get attrachted to one of the chemincals leeching out of the plastic.
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