See now this is something I don't understand. I hope it can be agreed that I'm a long term member of the SE community and I have a lot of knowledge I can pass on, but I'm simply not interested in being placed in a position of responsibility. I have no desire to go on power trips and so don't consider the extra effort worth the bother.
In some SE games I've on occasion been resentful of another empire riding roughshot over me and secretly vowed revenge, but this doesn't last longer than it takes me to get half way through my next turn. I simply can't see the point in expending additional effort in being petty or vindictive.
Apart from the conflict it causes getting into arguments with people, I fail to understand what the attraction is in bothering to make an issue of something. Yes I occasioanlly voice my opinions on matters but really it's not worth casting dispersions personally at someone just because you disagree with them. I'd rather just give up and forget it. In the grand scheme of things it makes no difference if you're right or not, and it just causes bad humours, you could say, to get obsessed. This is why I consider myself a Stoic (as well as a cynic, a nihilist, an appollonian, and half a dozen other half baked philosophies I once read about in a book
). There's nothing you can do about it so why bother.
Not that I'm criticising that you are making a point, just that I fail to see why people go on power trips.