Shii Posted:

I completely agree with Lester. Removing the peens from people really screws over the ones who stopped going for it for a while as a result of achieving the peen.

This. And that comes from someone who was nowhere near getting a leaderboard peen, and probably never will be.

plk Posted:

And letting you keep them screws over the people who achieved those numbers right after you did, have since surpbumed you, and still don’t have the peens. I don’t see why a few people should get to keep “unearned” peens while the rest of us have to work for them.

The point is that they gave up the opportunity to continue competing on achieving the peen, to be fair to those who “achieved those numbers right after [they] did.” If they’d known they wouldn’t get to keep the peen, they would have kept trying, and would still be ahead of “the people who achieved those numbers right after”.

In other words, people who were trying not to be selfish are being punished for it needlessly.