That brought tears to my eyes, man. Human tears.

Well, that might have brought more Human tears to my eyes, except for the reality Plime can (and did in my case) stick a "negative" number after your post, which means you are cut off from any response or defense, because a "positive" number is required to post anything further.

This means innocent readers think you did a Post and departed in a huff" "thang," when in reality, those who control Plime (and I assume, other sites) control what viewers do and do not see.

Plime is no different than most groups who don't want full information shared.

Having said that, I still consider Plime a valuable resource. It's just not one removed from criticism.

Blah, blah blah.. Blogs are a scourge, a pox upon them who perpetrate the idea that someone gives a sh*t about what they think. Blogs are like assh*les....


...except that I don't got one!

A blog or an arsehole?

both? :D

Why did you remove this? I wanted to read it.

I did not remove it. My webhost (Dotster) screwed up the database server for all of its customers for more than 3 hours.

Still not back yet.

I lost two posts from today. I have no idea how to get them back. They're not in my cache. :-(

I think you have a valid point about no avenue for bringing your negative score back up (and I voted positively on your comment for that reason).

But in all honesty... nobody starts off with a negative karma. And there isn't a secret cabal (group) who controls the site. Obviously Jax can do what he wants here but it has been my experience that he lets the system work itself out as it was intended.

Users with the highest Karma levels do have more influence than new members but I think that by and large, they use that added influence with a good bit of self control.

In my opinion, your post comes off as if you think everyone is out to get you because they want to "suppress" your opinion.

I think the reality of it is that you (like everyone else) have to build up some good will from the start and moderate the tone of your comments.

It's OK to disagree with people... we're just asking that you be objective and "civil" when you do.

By the way - like blogs and commentaries, it's better to post "opinion pieces" to the forum. That is the best place to have open discussion and debate.

...I look forward to "arguing" with you in the future.

The post is back. I used Google Reader to retrieve the feed. It's a good thing I enabled full page feeds a couple of weeks ago. This was the only way I could get what I wrote. I think I write pretty good, but my memory sucks!

Sucks that that happened to you. But there is no secret group that voted your stuff down. It was the member group here on plime (you know, the same one you are part of). It has nothing to do with what type of information is on it, unless that information is considered super offensive and people will vote those down.

I have no problem with full information being shared. In fact, I prefer it. The problems come in when the "full information" is being posted on a blog that doesn't list any sources. Any jackass can write an article and call it fact, but that doesn't meant it is. The other instance in which you will likely be negative-voted (which can lead to deletion) is if you are a member who does not contribute in any way to the site OTHER THAN to post a link to your blog now and then. That's just trolling.

I love these threads.

This could possibly be our blog policy. It's written quite well.