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RE: Is your rep high enough?
December 18, 2014 at 10:55 pm
I got repped without whoring a few days ago. I'm all cool for a while. Long time coming, though, that #23. I was about to throw a wobbly! :o
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RE: Is your rep high enough?
December 18, 2014 at 11:01 pm
(December 18, 2014 at 10:40 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Coming in super late to this thread but: Isn't it strange how this somehow matters to us a little bit? It's like, one number that appears on a computer screen, and when it goes up a little it makes us a tiny bit happier but that's really all it is, looking at a different number on a computer screen. Strange eh?
It mattered a lot more at one point in my life... but it's the list of what people say about you that really gets me
I love seeing more on that list.
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RE: Is your rep high enough?
December 18, 2014 at 11:11 pm
Yeah, that's true. If you're prone to low self esteem it can be a real boost. As a recovering flaming-narcissist, I start off with greatly over inflated self worth. I always say, that may be problem, but no way is it worse than the opposite.
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RE: Is your rep high enough?
December 18, 2014 at 11:21 pm
(December 18, 2014 at 11:01 pm)Alice Wrote: It mattered a lot more at one point in my life... but it's the list of what people say about you that really gets me
I love seeing more on that list.
I, too, occasionally watch the rep, and more often watch my kudoes. The reps I have come to take as what they are: a sign of overall, general decency and value to fellow posters. Kudoes are more of an instant sign, without reading, that my post is being read.
But even better is when I am responded to. Just like in normal, real life convo. It's nice to be listened to, and fit in. And I try to offer such thoughtful responses where I think I can, if something compels me to.
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RE: Is your rep high enough?
December 18, 2014 at 11:33 pm
(December 18, 2014 at 11:11 pm)whateverist Wrote: Yeah, that's true. If you're prone to low self esteem it can be a real boost. As a recovering flaming-narcissist, I start off with greatly over inflated self worth. I always say, that may be problem, but no way is it worse than the opposite.
Ha, we have that in common then. I'm a pretty bad narcissist. I guess the user name sort of gives that away. I just find myself so much more interesting then other people.
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RE: Is your rep high enough?
December 18, 2014 at 11:45 pm
Repping others is part of my 12 step program to take the edge off my narcissism. Don't worry. I have no intention of losing it all.
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RE: Is your rep high enough?
December 19, 2014 at 12:49 am
Of course my rep isn't high enough. Isn't it obvious?
Seriously, I lack Whateverists' healthy ego. I was/am dyslectic, and I carry the scars of early educational failure. Oh, and my younger brother passed me intellectually when when I was six and he was three and nothing's changed since.
Intellectually (pun) I know I'm fairly bright. Emotionally, I don't.
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RE: Is your rep high enough?
December 19, 2014 at 1:12 am
December is rep whore month. The season of giving and getting. .kinda fitting if you think about it.
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RE: Is your rep high enough?
December 19, 2014 at 1:17 am
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RE: Is your rep high enough?
December 19, 2014 at 1:55 am
Moar repz plz.
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