Though it does leave open a comment...
Yokiria wrote:In fact, hold on. Let me go through a list of past proposals whose targets' accomplishments are no longer worthy of recognition based on the Cormac proposals failing. Maybe that'll knock some sense into the major delegates.
Commend Ramaeus
Commend Duxburian Union (Vincent Drake)
Commend Grays Harbor
Condemn North East Somerset
Condemn Pierconium
Commend Woonsocket
Commend Paffnia
Commend Bachtendekuppen
Commend Xoriet
Commend Minoa
Condemn Chan Island
Commend Helaw
Commend Knootoss
Commend Wintony
That's going back 2 years. If I go longer, I'll find more, no doubt. Everyone I listed above deserves what they have. I'm not saying they don't. But, based on Cormac not being deserving... neither are they.
It's a bit silly of you to just list off everyone, and would like to point out that the realm where I got my condemnation was in a very different world from Cormac's valuable contributions. What programmers call a 'category error'. So I do protest being on this list.
Cormactopia Prime wrote:Yokiria wrote:In fact, hold on. Let me go through a list of past proposals whose targets' accomplishments are no longer worthy of recognition
Ah, the difference though is that those folks are -- or at least were at the time of passage -- popular. That's really all this is, the in-crowd backpatting other members of the in-crowd. It has no meaning at all, and the people who receive these commendations and condemnations aren't even the most accomplished players. In fact, many of them are extremely mediocre, and their mediocrity is why they've remained socially popular and get these badges. Many of the most accomplished players have been controversial, and thus they have neither a commendation nor a condemnation because the people who don't like them don't want to reward them with recognition. Depriving me, and others like me, of a commendation or condemnation is basically just the petty flailing of the mediocre, pleased that in this one instance they are able to beat those of us who have routinely been superior to them in every other game context.
Personally, I don't need a badge to know I'm better at this game than these people. I've known it for years. They know it too, it's why they hate me.
And this is outright unfair. I have authored more issues than anybody who isn't/wasn't an issue editor. Hardly calls for that line.