Reputations

[Bêthberry]

Ladies and Gentlemen of the fora and esteemed fellow Barrow Downers, it is with great sadness that I make this announcement.

For the foreseeable future, when I rep you, I will be unable to provide the high number of rep points to which you have become accustomed upon receiving a rep from me.

"No!" you gasp. "Why? What have we done?"

"Nothing," I say. "It lies beyong my control and 'tis nothing you have done."

"How so, she who once was waylaid by a forgetful Maia?"

"I have been diminished."

GASPS! Cries of "Noooo!" and, truth be told, a chortle or two.

"Beth, you haven't bounded over the Fellowship poll and taken the One Ring for yourself, have you?" cried one frightened voice.

"Nay, not so. Would Beth succumb so easily to one of Fordim's polls? Has she ever even voted on one of Fordim's polls?"

"What then," cries Fea of the White Horse and several Werewolf games?

"I have been smited."

"Smited? Is that like slaked?" cried one wit.

Wisely, then, I take the hint and decide to drag this soap opera out no longer.

My fellow Downers, I have been negative repped, secretly, in the dark hours of the Downs over night and while we all slept.

Forsooth! I have earned the enmity of someone. Someone who has not come forth to make his (or her) name known, but who choose to object to my humour nonetheless. And left a question. Now, how can I answer this question if I don't know who left it?

Originally Posted by Rep Anon

'don't suppose these websites explained' - I would suppose they did. Why would you blindly suppose otherwise?

And t'was this post which earned my doom

What can I say? How to explain to thin air? To a wraith who wanders without leaving much trace?

But, to close: Fellow Downers, bear with me I say. I will endeavour quickly to earn your accolades so I can continue to reward you for your wit and charm and cleverness and overcome this slighting by one who robbed me of, well, it was less than 10 points actually. But I thinkI did drop a bit.