Since just a little before you posted this legitimate-sounding question you posted suggesting that a porn section be added here, I'm rather reluctant to respond since you certainly are behaving like a troll some of the time (a troll is someone who says things on-line for the sole purpose of getting a response and doesn't really mean what they are saying) so I'm not convinced that you really don't understand what happened and/or want to understand.

I was "here" yesterday when the tide turned against you. You posted, in fairly rapid succession, 10 one-line quizes. Before you were half-way done, several people were publicly asking you to stop (in the chatterbox) and some indicated that they had sent you a private /msg about it. But the new postings continued.

This was enough for some to decide that you were intentionally being annoying (being a troll). It was enough to convince others that you were annoying (for whatever reason) and needed to at least take some time to better figure out what the site was about.

In any case, by ignoring the many requests in the chatterbox (both public and private), you convinced enough people that you were a problem that some of them voted against your 10 quizes.

At this point your 10 quizes were removed for 2 reasons: 1) Everyone agreed that they weren't done appropriately and 2) They were getting down voted by those mentioned above so removing them saves you from further XP loss.

Then, in response to suggestions that you "at least" put the quiz questions into a single posting, you actually admitted that you had posted them all separately for the purpose of getting more XP from them (so that you could vote for Eureka_sg's nodes!). That clearly shows that you don't understand what this site is about (or that you may understand but don't care because you are really just being a troll).

So if you are here just to get XP so you can vote for Eureka_sg's nodes (and he can vote for yours), then your postings are going to be uninteresting and you aren't going to get much XP for them (and voting for each other won't add up to much XP unless you post a lot, and a lot of uninteresting postings gets annoying which leads people to vote them down which makes you lose XP). In other words, that isn't what this site is about and your plan isn't likely to work.

If you'd like to talk about and learn about Perl, then I will certainly welcome your mature involvement in our little community. But you'll have to be on your best behavior for quite a while as many members have now tagged you as a troll and many others strongly suspect you are either a troll or are about to become one.

Back to the timeline... Right after all of that you posted the quiz questions together in a single posting. Several people had already mentioned that your quiz questions weren't very interesting ones. But I suspect the bigger problem was that you had already convinced a bunch of people that you didn't "get it". So your new quiz got voted down quite a bit.

At this point I voted to have your combined quiz removed for the sole purpose of saving you the XP loss until you had a chance to learn from your mistake or to prove yourself too immature to learn from it. I'm sure others voted to have it removed just because that were still annoyed at you (for good reason, IMHO).

Your title seems to indicate some confusion. There is no one "mind" to be made up here (unless you are talking to yourself). We are a community of hundreds. So being even mildly annoying can get a posting voted down by a fairly small fraction of "us" so if you are mildly annoying in a very visible way, then you are probably going to get a reputation on your node below -10.

Instead of trying to get XP, try to learn and discuss and think. Ask interesting questions. Provide interesting answers. Participate in the community.

If that sounds good to you, then your best bet is probably to not post for a while and just read nodes and get the feel for the community. If you are sure that that isn't what you were looking for, then (to be blunt) please just leave. I hope you choose to stay, though.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")