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It was the number of high rep people that nerged him that added up.

The system is weird/complex. If you have good rep and long-standing, then you effectively have more 'rep power'... you can influence someone else's rep in a bigger way.

If a lot of people with high rep power nerg, then it is a multiplier. So basically ed nuked himself.

I'd be worried if such thing make the system automatically ban me, but otherwise, rep is rep, it's about as important as crank length.