XP Stoicism is a nice idea in theory, but in practice, I really
don't think it works on every level. The General synopsis of
this node would have to be 'we don't have to sanitize our ideas'
-- it's a very good position. The problem is, due to people
being human, it fails sometimes in its execution.  It's easy to
say 'fuck reputation' when you're a level 9, because by then you
have so many people already backing you that anyone disagreeing
with you is in the minority. Chances are, people already respect
you because of your level and the length of time you've been
here. But it's a completely different story for the new user who
joined last month. A new, inept user doesn't have the option of
ignoring reputation because the whole user structure (not E2
itself, mind you) is based on level, which is in part based on
XP.  I had the good fortune of becomming a part of the community
long before E2 came around (we were still
everything.blockstackers.com back then), and so there was no
such thing as XP or C! as we know