Less time online/My soon to be unwanted level-up

So school is back in kiddos. Yeah, it sucks, I know. :P This is the second week of school for me, in which I know I'll have a significant amount of more work than the first week (I never really have to do anything in the first week) so I'll be online a lot less. I miss all you guys already. Yes, even the ones I fight with about the Avatar finale, because you guys are fun to shut down. :lol:

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Soon I'll be leveled up to a ginsu knife. Why give you an awesome level like an Autobot, just to take it away from you and turn you into a knife? :cry: I messaged Gislef about it, I'll go ahead and share them here. Just this once. Sad news, I say. :(

(Subject: voluntary point loss)

Me(M)

I asked you about freezing my lever before, and I remember you stated it would mess up the site's integrity, (or something like that), which I figured. But then I realized, what if I just take a voluntary point loss? all the way to 0%? Is that possible? Or do I have to purposely break a rule so that I can take a suspension?

Gislef(G)

I'm not sure what you mean about "freezing your lever." If you don't wish to use your account any more, don't use your account any more. That leaves you with the option of using it in the future.

You can set your profile to Private, then change your password to a random combination that even you don't know, and you won't be able to access it.

Suspensions are temporary, bans are permanent. So I'm not sure what good taking a suspension would do.

A point loss wouldn't affect anything one way or another.

My advice would be that if you don't wish to use your account... don't use your account. That way if you change your mind a day, or a week, or a year, or five years later, you can still log on. Any banning will be life-time permanent.

M (Yeah go ahead and laugh at me :P misspelling "level")

My mistake, I meant, "freeze my level." Because I didn't want to level up to level 15. It's not that I don't want to use my account anymore, it's that I don't want to level up. I'm currently at 91% because of all my posts and blog comments (and possibly PMs, but I'm not sure that sending PMs levels one up) and I want to lose points so that I can remain at level 14. The only way one can lose points however, is through a suspension. So I was asking do I have to take a voluntary suspension in order to lose points so that my level will stay at 14 and not go up to 15.

G

A suspension doesn't cost you points so getting suspended wouldn't stop you from going up a level. We don't have a way to freeze someone at a level or make someone lose points.

M

(I know this is kinda trivial, forgive me, heh)

So, how does a user lose points if not a part of being suspended? A user loses points by breaking the TOS? Not as an addition to being suspended for breaking the TOS?

G

We don't make users lose points. Gamespot can do it, we don't.

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And therein lies my confusion. I coulda sworn that both times I had been suspended before I lost points. Yes, I was asking if I could get suspended on purpose so I could lose points. I would have blogged about it before hand so there wouldn't be another scare like last time (coughAKBandhisblogclaimingIwassuspendedwhenIwasjustgroundedcough) :P

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And that's it.