Why bring this up at all? You have a collection of posts where you say you don't care about A. XP. B. Downvotes. C. What anyone else thinks. So you're either full of crap then, full of crap now, or just full of it generally.

You get downvoted because your posts are terrible, in terms of technical content, formatting and attitude towards this forum and it's users.

Your standard play is to post something so bad it makes 'worst nodes of the year' (which you say you don't care about), keep quiet for a few days then return posting some sycophantic bullcrap about how much you love this site, how you want to improve it and help people. You never do any of this. You make this place worse. You post terrible advice which could get people into trouble if they were dumb enough to blindly take you at your word (worthless as your word is). You vastly alter your posts and don't mark the updates. Your formatting is ridi<super>cul</super>_ous.

Yet here you are, again with this. There's no conspiracy. Your posts are terrible and get downvoted. No bots. Just people.

Everyone else, please continue to call this clown out on his crap. If you don't then casual visitors may be duped by his garbage and take his advice. He won't reply to you. Don't expect the common curtsey he demands of others.

Mike Robinson, Sundial Services, you should be ashamed of yourself.

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