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...I often get dinged; which is not to say I don't deserve it. Most of the time I do deserve it. I don't suffer fools well, so there's that.

I'm pretty cranky about the state of the world, particularly when it comes to environmental issues that I've spent decades working to understand while people chanted their rote dogma.

On occasion over the years, I have appealed some of the few dings I felt I didn't deserve, but I have never gotten a response, possibly because the administration agrees with the ding, or because, well, hell, they have better things to do than be concerned with my perception of injustice and there's not time to review my whining complaints about my hurt feelings.

I just don't bother we appeals now. It may or may not be a dead letter office.

It would be interesting to know if appeals ever work, but I have no evidence that they do, possibly because I'm a bad guy.

Here's some strategies I use to keep my head above water. If I get dinged for noting that an idiot is an idiot out loud - we do have some here - I add that person to my ignore list to avoid coming across them and perhaps expressing my feelings about them. I also keep my 25 member (maximum) jury block updated for supreme and/or persistent idiots, particularly those who seem to follow me around.

Don't sweat it. Even the best of us can get dinged, along with the worst, of course. There are some dings I've gotten that feel like a badge of honor.