God, this place is getting
brutal.
I had hit level 8 last month, only to watch my reputation and level slide as writeups were killed. Some due to whimsy, some for very good reasons. All of my "Cruel Shoes" stories were nuked. Sure, they were copyright infringement, but no longer than a song lyric which strangely are exempt. I could put all the lyrics from all the albums I have on this site (in fact, getting most of them off other sites on the Net) and probably hit level 9, but that's not really the point, is it?
I don't know--perhaps I haven't been working as hard at it, or maybing things are different, but I think that Everything is no longer the free-wheeling place it once was. People are concerned about some haughty ideal that really isn't befitting what should be a fun, organic, living site; trying to turn it into a work of art is a bit much.
Using the day logs to vent, how original.
Yeah, so now I just go around downvoting other people's work. Some of it is stuff I would have upvoted before. I figure, apparently nothing but the perfect writeup is useful to the site anymore, so anything less, I'm just taking out of its misery.