I have a theory, Wittman.
Weren’t you #1 on that bar graph for being “most respected” for awhile?
Perhaps someone is jealous.
You get so many (deserved) up votes, that you are still +69 and after the anonymous down clicker gets tired of it you’ll no doubt rise again.
I echo the advice of others. You know you’re well liked, you don’t need a number to tell you that. You should ignore it.
I read the rationale of the current system when it was implemented. The idea wasn’t to show how respected or disrespected individual users were (although there is that bar graph in “more stats” that 90% of people don’t know about or ever look at), but moreso to judge individual posts.
Moderators (the idea went) would be able to see what posts had a big negative (like -5 or more?) and that would be a way of flagging bad posts for moderator attention, so they could delete it or intervene or whatever.
So you see, a -1 on a bunch of your game playing posts really means nothing. He is trying to kick all your sand castles down, but he’s not even achieving that.