ah yes, here we go! the oh noes! we gotta pour on the hiderates to provide an adequate smokescreen so that big bad daddy kos wont see the less than stellar way we have been comporting ourselves lately.
pounding folks with silly, or just plain wrong hiderates is a major flag to kos these days. long gone are the days when you could get your "buddies" to pour on the hiderates and then whine to the moderator to get a diarist or commentator summarily removed at your discretion.
old habits are hard to break. and kos knows this so he has disarmed the hiderate system, except as a way of flagging abusers.
so, please, when you throw those hr grenades, know they do much more potential damage to yourselves if you are being abusive with them.
thanks