'Top' Reputation Givers

[Bêthberry]

Helen posted:
Do be careful, however, because there are those at The Downs who resist balrog-swooning on principle. I believe Bethberry tops the list. Do not incur her wrath, or she will pursue you from the depths of Moria to the peak of Zirak Zigil til she smites your ruin on the mountainside.

Now, now, now. Helen. I see you have contributed to the delinquency of someone as we now have a Roggie of Morgoth registered and online.

But you really must qualify your comments about my anti-swoon crusade. If the swooning is done with wit and cleverness and intelligence--in short, if it is done with the highest standards of Truth and Good Art--why, I don't see that it should lead us to the spiralling depths of darkness where we would be overrun with fangirls. It might even hold out some hopefulness that some fangirls might find some level on the path to Transcendence, depending on how well those (eye)lines are drawn.

EDIT (See, HI, I make my reason clear): The culprit has beaten me to the post. "But at my back, I always hear, the wings of HerenIstarion hurrying near." Apologies to Turambar and Rimbaud.

And those wings had best be repping again soon or Helen will become our top reputation giver.

[Mithalwen]

*cue a legolas moment* "Aieeeeee a balrog is come...a balrog of Morgoth. scourge of our people!!!!"


I think Roggie should visit regularly ... and definitely get a sig :

[mark12_30]

Nay, my good and dear Mithalwen, the cry is to be rendered thus:

AIIII! AIII! THE BETHBERRY! THE BETHBERRY HAS COME!

Helen, with Bethberry's good and true blade-hilt artistically protruding from her sternum, keels over in a dead swoon. Her arm, flung by the force of her fall, lifelessly points to Roggie Of Morgoth's eyeliner, which despite all claims on the packaging has begun to smoulder around the edges. Roggie looks down on the lifeless form, and with a sigh of regret, sends a glare towards Helen's Bane, who comes to retrieve her blade.

"You could have let her write one good swoon-post. Just one, " he mutters, and stomps off, swiping his whip-handle at his smouldering eyeliner. "Get this stuff off of me. Where's that Mirrormere again? Outside? Drat. Another forest fire, and I'm the one that gets cursed for it."

[Boromir88]

I sit back, read this, and laugh, and just wonder how we come up with some of the discussions we have on the downs, it's just mind boggling.

[The Barrow-Wight]

Let's get back on topic, please. We are wandering.

[The Saucepan Man]

I must admit that I am somewhat alarmed at the concept that one person, or a handful of people, can or should determine what is "good" on the Downs. From a personal point of view, I fully applaud HI's taste, but I do not accept the principle. By which I mean that, in my humble opinion, the Reputation list should reflect the views of all members (or all currently active members at least), not just one or two, and we cannot expect everyone to have the time or inclination to search through a myriad of posts in order to award sufficent reputation to enable them to go back and rep a particular post that tickled their fancy.

If I see a post which I react favourably to but cannot rep because I have repped the poster recently, then I simply don't rep it. Chances are that I will rep another of that person's posts later when I am able to. Equally, I accept that not everyone who likes one of my posts will be able to rep it if they have repped me recently. To my mind, that's simply a function of the system.

[HerenIstarion]

If I see a post which I react favourably to but cannot rep because I have repped the poster recently, then I simply don't rep it.

Maybe it can be stored by bookmarking it? You can go back to it later, when you've 'spread' sufficient amount of reputation 'around'. Than your time is saved - you don't need to rep other ten posts right now on the spot, and quality of reputation-giving is preserved as well, for eagerness to rate what you liked may make you rate what you've barely read. I remember having mere remark of mine positively (and anonimously) rated, and comments read that it was done in a hurry with the goal of rating other post by other user in mind. Better have to-do list, I reckon

Master Architect (I was flattered, really) re: I believe you don't blame me for that?! But, kidding apart, even with high reputing ratio, I don't think it is or ever may be entirely my or any one person's 'doing'. Poetic exaggeration it was rather . It may have been if all but one promised to abstain from reputing at all, but that would not happen.

Roggie re: Maybe he'll reappear in RPG, if I ever get fired from this dratted office and have more time. That's not a promise, mind you