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Originally Posted by Kopiosteve
Then you might need to recalibrate your perspective on the system dude. The motivation of sharing should never be about "what can I get back from it". We share because, we want to share, plain and simple. It was never about contributing with the aim of gaining something in return.
Points are given in a show of appreciation or reward for a quality or informative post. And appreciation is given, never asked for. Rewards are bestowed, never an entitlement.
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edit: bros who find this too long pls skip. sorry but i feel a little indignant and really want to explain myself.
Thanks for your comment bro, but i think you got me wrong. i never saw it as what i can get back from my sharing. my sharing were not done with this intention in mind. i think one can easily tell from the way i’ve been writing. and what i’ve been consistently saying. i was simply asking (which i don’t now) as a “by the way” thing since it seemed to me this was was kinda the sub-culture across the forum. i believe i’ve said many times that i started writing with the aim to share, to pay forward the FRs that benefited me. i have spent 15 yrs or more of lurking around sbf unofficially (w/o account) and officially. i only just started writing this past month or so. had been a 20 points reader for the longest time without a care for points and how this all works so there no reason why i would suddenly be so obsessed about it and be “begging” for it. But since i started writing, i realised points are needed as some kind of protection from really high powered zaps. Like one bro mentioned, there seems to be gods here with crazy amount of power, and a few zaps from them will wipe one to oblivion. the 300 point reduction over a couple of days i mentioned… was from only a handful of zappers.
Also, many have PMed me for more info (and i’m sure u get tons of them too) after reading my sharings and have benefited from my replies, and i share without discrimination everything i know. however, many not only do not return points (which is fine) but don’t even say a word of thanks. just take and disappear. some even have the cheek to come back for more for different ladies like i owe it to them, get whatever info they need, and just disappear again. so this is another reason for just asking for points, “by the way”, as a gentle reminder, to fodder up, or whatever one wants to call it.
anyway if anyone noticed, i stopped asking for it in the threads since it rubs ppl the wrong way. so…
one last thing… i asked about the 2 shades of green bars and how to interpret it below the rep/power at the top right of each post. any other bros know the answer about how to interpret it?