So I hopped on MilForums today and checked my control panel to see that I had the following message in my "reputation" area.

Self-righteous rant, while being a hypocrite to boot. See post #47

I want to know who the ****er is that wrote that, get rid of this anonymous reputation or just use your magic admin powers to tell me who wrote that. I don't give people reputations, I let my posts do my speaking for me, and furthermore I think this idea of reputation/karma/nods is retarded. But to call what I wrote a "Self-righteous rant, while being a hypocrite to boot. See post #47" is really out of place, here's what I said.

Those SCUDS that Saddam fired at Kuwait when we started dropping bombs in 2003 were banned following the trust in 1991. Just throwing it out there.

Which was in response to the following statement.

I think that once we started to invade, we should have figured out that they didn't exist.

If you're being invaded, and you had WMDs, woudn't you use them?

Which I was correct and being not at all self-righteous or hypocritical. Saddam did fire SCUDS are targets in Kuwait in 2003 after we started bombing Iraq for Round II and those weapons were banned by the truce (incorrectly labeled as "trust" in my actual post) following Desert Shield. You want self-righteous, I can give you self-righteous. You want hypocritical, I can give out hypocritical. You want a rant, I can post a rant. But in the meantime, I would like to suggest that this anonymous reputation BS be removed, I don't need to see a person's Reputation to know if they are full of BS or not just based on my experiences with them. This is the internet, it's already quite anonymous, that takes some special kind of chickenshit to be too scared to even call a spade a spade over 10,000 miles of cables and satellite signals. If you're going to give a person reps at least add your name to the comment box.

I posted the comment to which you responded. I do not know who gave you the rep, all I know is that it was not me.

Do you mean that you posted the comment in that last quote box?

I think you're taking other people's opinions to seriously Damien. We can't see the comments on your reputation, so just treat it as you feel it deserves.

In my view, it's a rather cowardly way of taking a shot at you regardless of what you may or may not have said, and I'm sure that if you probably PMed one of the Mods they would seem that the right thing was done.

Don't give the person the satisfaction of knowing he's upset you.

Obviously he never read your signature

Originally Posted by Damien435

Do you mean that you posted the comment in that last quote box?

yes, I did.

Damien, this is something we've addressed before. We've asked that anyone posting a rep comment initial the comment. We (staff) will look into this. PM me if you need to, thanks.

i always sign mine TI or i spell it out. you know if i leave you a bad sack of poo on your door step.

I like the Anonymity. But I only give approval, so... yeah.

I always initial mine as well and since I don't use the negative rep option I can guarantee that it wasn't me.

Oddly enough though I thought this had been changed as my rep points all have the posters initials with them.

Originally Posted by The Other Guy

I like the Anonymity. But I only give approval, so... yeah.

Same here. But I still always sign mine. When I compliment someone, I see no reason to do so anonymously. Same goes for when I give someone a bad rep. I see no reason to hide it from them. *shrugs*