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So years of service, welcoming and helping people understand how our this site works adds up to zero for you? Normal people recognize that authority is earned, through visible service to a community. Trust grows between people over time. It's not a plastic sticker inspected by no. 67 on the package. It's interesting to note that while you (samuel) have gone on record as the FSCO's unofficial Official Spokesperson, but exactly zero of them have ever showed up in the comments to corroborate your side of the pissing contest. Sources say the actual members of the FSCO want nothing to do with messy public shit slinging bitch fests. They don't want to be quoted or represented or brought into this at all, because BC isn't designed to be a top down authoritarianship. The FSCO and the cogs stand aside and let the habituates of this place organize themselves or not as they choose. BCers can choose to not to recognize commonly recognized leaders, but your stubbornly narrow definition of leader does not apply to the rest of us. You and monkey are both lying when you interpret leadership to be valid only if it's authorized by the FSCO, knowing as you do that the FSCO does not work that way. They aren't trying to participate in our conversations. The fact that they let us choose our leaders from amongst our own ranks doesn't make those leaders "not real" or "fake news" or however you two spin doctors want to manipulate it. The truth is that a number of people look to what some have called their Lord and Master for help understanding how to get the most from their boychatting experience. Two hateful old biddys cackling about the way the younger generation is doing it wrong matters not a cluck.