:56278543 About your comment of "observations on the nature of the "elite" in EE". Actually I have been watching SO/SE for a couple of years, and I took part in all SO surveys and from time to time talk to moderators, community staff and participate 
 in meta sites. I do think I always badly irritate the elites.  You might see the reason in my comment to the following article: 
Down votes and unfriendly Badges! - Jon Ericson, Community Manager (former) 2019jun18
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/06/18/adios-to-unfriendly-badges-ahoy-lifejacket-and-lifeboat/

***tlfong01's Comment 2019jun21*** 
I have been in Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange for a year or so. So far I have posted about 180 answers but only 1 question. A year ago, I was happy and encouraged when getting up votes, and sad for down votes. But after getting too many up votes (I am top 0.5% this quarter), I began to have the opposite reaction, ie, happy when getting down votes. I know this might be abnormal, so I thought deep to find my reasons. One reason that applies to me is that, in real life, I luckily got many “up votes” which I think I don’t deserve, and I saw too many unlucky people unfairly get too many “down votes”. In a sense, I have sort of “up vote guilt”, similar to “survival guilt”. After reading this article, I am glad I understand more about the badges system. A year ago I read that Stack Overflow is based on the “electronic games” psychology that so many gamers got addicted. After watching how many “reputation hungry” users here try to get more “reputation points”, I got sadly reminded of my unlucky friends addicted to electronic games (or even to drugs and gambling). One other reason I that I am happy to get down votes is that in real life I don’t get that many constructive (or destructive) criticisms. So down votes help me to improve. I know I am already good at many things, but I hope to become excellent, ideally along with everybody. Anyway, one result of reading this article or analysis is that I would become more generous in giving up votes. Many thanks to Jon Ericson. Cheers.