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<blockquote data-quote="bazang" data-source="post: 1102448" data-attributes="member: 114717">Most enthusiasts that want to be taken seriously do the things necessary in their testing to build a solid reputation. They are easily identified and differentiated from the typical YouTube tester.I did not mean any random YouTube tester.Those being assessed always have influence upon the assessors and the methodology used to assess, particularly when the relationship between the assessed and the assessor is subject to multi-level conflicts of interest, collusion, a common motive or objective, a pay-for-assessment system, gaming the assessment system (cheating), etc.It is probably a good thing to be skeptical in such arrangements, even when every bit of infos available to you points to all of it being performed and completed in a trustworthy manner.Lord Burghley (William Cecil) once said to someone he wanted to degrade and grievously insult:&quot;If it were not for you being you, you would be a much better person. You are powerless to help yourself. A curse upon your family and our society. You could have been great.&quot; (I wonder what that sounded like in the original Old English. The tone and inflection of voice he used.)When he said it he knew it applies to us all in one way, shape or form. Himself excluded, of course. Even though he knew it to be particularly apt to himself. He was great by the mere fact that he considered himself to be one of the greatest in English history. Such it is for those that dictate the rules of Empire and their place in it. They even get to fabricate their own pleasant fictions about themselves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bazang, post: 1102448, member: 114717"] Most enthusiasts that want to be taken seriously do the things necessary in their testing to build a solid reputation. They are easily identified and differentiated from the typical YouTube tester. I did not mean any random YouTube tester. Those being assessed always have influence upon the assessors and the methodology used to assess, particularly when the relationship between the assessed and the assessor is subject to multi-level conflicts of interest, collusion, a common motive or objective, a pay-for-assessment system, gaming the assessment system (cheating), etc. It is probably a good thing to be skeptical in such arrangements, even when every bit of infos available to you points to all of it being performed and completed in a trustworthy manner. Lord Burghley (William Cecil) once said to someone he wanted to degrade and grievously insult: "If it were not for you being you, you would be a much better person. You are powerless to help yourself. A curse upon your family and our society. You could have been great." (I wonder what that sounded like in the original Old English. The tone and inflection of voice he used.) When he said it he knew it applies to us all in one way, shape or form. Himself excluded, of course. Even though he knew it to be particularly apt to himself. He was great by the mere fact that he considered himself to be one of the greatest in English history. Such it is for those that dictate the rules of Empire and their place in it. They even get to fabricate their own pleasant fictions about themselves. [/QUOTE]

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