I agree here to the extent it talks about level sitting. I don't know much about the gear hoarding stuff, I've never really been involved in a situation like that.

But re: level sitting, I was very upset to have one of my characters slapped with a derogatory title because of supposed level sitting. And it was for *far* less time than contemporaries who spent much more time at some level, far less than Vargraye in our current world, and, most importantly, did exactly what Nepenthe wrote earlier when he said that staying at one level is fine.

It still annoys me when I think about it because it was not only unwarranted, but smacked of obvious inconsistency and differential treatment. Those being at the root of some of my problems with the staff over the years.

Salting the wound of course were the repeated responses by the staff at the time (mostly the same staff as now, in the higher ranks, of course) that it was crazy that I even got upset about it, that that's how things are, blah blah blah. The sadly usual "shove under the blanket" response we sometimes get. And which is the other root of my problems with the staff over the years.

Anyway, this is just a good reason to mention it. I of course have no idea as to the merits of whomever it is you are all talking about in this instance.