“Does anyone care who thought who was smartest/most pretentious/most anything in college after they left college? I thought people left that stuff behind after HS.”
I think we have just done a 360. See my comments at post 392. As far as why posters are so negative about it, I think psychology has the answer, evaluation anxiety:
http://www.stes-apes.med.ulg.ac.be/Documents_electroniques/EVA/EVA-PROG/ELE%20EVA-PROG%207406.pdf