I'll address the reputation bias: the reputation does not always matter. All my answers but one got deleted by an admin for being quote only (even though the quotes were clearly answering the questions and there were no need to comment, as the number of upvotes testified). I had a high reputation when that happened. Be happy your answers didn't get deleted (deletion of comments also happens [way too often and too fast](http://meta.health.stackexchange.com/q/516/43) on this Stack Exchange website).