Samildanach Posted:

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.

I don’t believe that altruism had anything to do with it.

Also, I believe this post http://www.forumwarz.com/discussions/view_post/524774 indicated that it was going to happen.