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Come on, we need to get over this.  If I went on a Sedevacantist forum and started promoting R&R, I'd be sure to get a 1:5000 reputation there.  If you post Flat Earth stuff anywhere except on a Flat Earth forum, you'd get a similar ratio.  90% of reputation depends on the position you take vs. the majority position on the forum.  Sure, this can go up or down marginally depending on whether or not you take a harsh tone, but most of it has to do with the subject at hand.  There are people who have extremely high reputations, but most often it's because they won't take a stand on any of the controversial issues.  If I were to do nothing but post articles in praise of Our Lady, then I'd get very few downvotes and have a stellar reputation.  Men here in particular, it's an incredibly effeminate trait to be concerned about what people think of you and to take things personally.  If I were to go on a Prot forum, promote the Catholic Church, and get a 1:1,000,000 reputation, that would be a badge of honor.  So if you're convinced that you're right and most others are wrong, then you should take consolation in the backlash.

That's why Matthew rightly considers it to be merely an indicator of how well you fit in among the other members of the forum.

It is a great cross at first to shoulder to simply stop visiting first, places like zerohedge and drudgereport, and then to progress to any other site including novusordowatch which I visit rarely which causes static.   This site wouldn't except for the reputation, almost certainly.  Guess what I always do?  I always cover with my hand the left hand side of the page if I do come here.  

The site should be benign.   We have a right to be benign and to encourage.  To process without distraction. 

Here's what I always thought best.  Just do up votes, and on individual posts only. 

I have to cover the left hand side just to maintain my innocence, which is very very mportant to me.

When I visited and read here, I always felt... kind of.... empathy for those I understood were strong enough to inspire 'hate' or 'love' from others with some opinion or other... and that's as far as it went.

Forexfactory has a ingenious way of showing traders whose input is valuable - there's a way to subscribe.  If one has above a certain number of subscribers the little flag appears next to the name and it changes color as more do.   I did get subscribers but years passed before I even noticed the little flag!  The site has strong skilled policing because traders from all over the world interact there.   Here, it would be like subscribing to a person whose thinking, in general, you like - but it is designed to actually help traders trade better because the high impact traders have the darkest little flag. 

Here, we are not materialistic in that way.  Let's just digest in peace.

And let each other be in peace. 

Otherwise, it's distracting, and grays out the site.

St. Terese of Jesus, the ardent communicator

St. Terese of Jesus wouldn't up vote and down vote the person; she'd probably want the reputation removed. 

I'm sure she is interested; she was a great communicator and loved interacting with others... but understood only when she gained liberty of soul that God was right meaning meant her best when he told her: 

'I want you to communicate with angels, not men' during a period of great stress because her reputation had been hurt in the monastery when the portress reported that some 'learned men' as St. Terese of Jesus called the Jesuits she felt she needed to confide in, and others, not only misconstrued what she confided thinking she was deluded, but also, spread the information she had entrusted to them - this was not breaking the seal of confession ...  she was very humble and only understood from that that God wanted her to suffer at that time.  But... it was then that Our Lord intervened and told her the above quoted desire of his.

You can find details in The Life of St Terese by herself.

Guess what I always do?  I always cover with my hand the left hand side of the page if I do come here.  

The site should be benign.   We have a right to be benign and to encourage.  To process without distraction.

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You could use a couple of post-its on your screen, and then you can type with two hands!    8)  .