Back when I was occasionally using eBay, I noticed something about the seller ratings:
Given the opportunity to rate a seller in under 79 characters (or whatever the limit was), I'd try to squeeze in something informative. Like, I dunno, maybe "Item as described; prompt shipment; no problems." That kind of thing.
Most of the other positive seller ratings, though were of the form "AAAAAAAA+++++ sUper eBayEr!!!" Apparently, rating containing fewer than 7 As and 5 +es meant "you suck."
Well, that's a bunch of online kiddies. Grownups don't do that sort of thing, do they?
Er... so how come sovereign bond ratings seem to run from AAAAAAA+++++ ("will probably make the payments on time") all the way down to B ("total junk; regime unstable; default imminent")?
Obviously, it's just another manifestation of "everyone gets a trophy," brought to you this time by the fulsome and meretricious people in the world of high finance.
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