RECs are based on posts being relevant to investors. On-topic.
Your problem is you use RECs for meaning AGRee, and especially when it is someone who generally agrees with you, or helps you abuse the same targeted folks. So you ASSume that everybody does the same. But that is not the case with me. REC means a post might be of interest to busy readers. It does not mean it is necessarily correct.......I would not tell another investor what to believe is correct, that is each investor's personal responsibility and right to determine.
And co3aii happens to almost always keep his comments on-topic. The vast majority of your voluminous posts are not on-topic, and when they have on-topic comments they also include heavy doses of abuse. When you post on-topic, and not repetitive, and it doesn't include abuse, I give you a REC. If you want more RECs (percentage wise) than somebody else, then post a higher percentage of on-topic abuse-free posts.
Keep in mind that folks who read the board regularly have seen (or can look at) the RECs, and it is obvious who RECs on content and who RECs on AGReeing and buddying up. You can't fool them just by making false accusations about it, because the evidence is in black and white.
The folks that lack credibility (FWIW here), are those that (necessarily) think they have to keep arguing how credible they are. Me thinks thou dost protest too much.