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Weird story perhaps. Bit I also once created a sort of 'rate your fellow students' system as a joke. (It was more a 'had done interesting things' point system). Only it was created because we were trying to convince someone we had this at a gathering, and I tosses together some nicknames (obv I wasn't going to use real names) and points randomly. And the moment I noticed that people outside of the direct people involved (still members of the same social circle) took it too seriously and came up to me to tell me private things to increase their score, I changed the code to just return 'ha, this was all just a joke created to convince X we had done it'. Not my proudest moment, but this is how I'd think people should behave if it is just a joke and if the 'its a prank' isnt just an excuse.

This also caused me to become quit the anti 'rate/record your fellow students/social circle' systems btw. It is annoying how often the idea returns, and how much you have to argue this is a dumb idea.

So in short, if it is just a prank, why is it still up when it is hurting people.

yes, i found it particularly mentionable b/c of its laconic observations. as far as analysis goes i doubt there's a need for something new, Kritische Theorie has it covered.