Basically you opened your mouth.

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I originally tried to remove those quantity designations but soon found it was woven too deeply into many of the scripts that make the board go. Quantity is certainly a factor but mostly it's your name and recent words to the right of it that determine credibility.

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Now there's a designation that means something even when all someone does is listen.