Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.
Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time.
By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
It's not that things won't change - they can't help but change. Things are becoming more and more competitive.
The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable.
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.
Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.
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