Originally Posted by intuition

Yeah, but it is understandable.
When you hit silver/gold the first time you might have been flying as a pleb for awhile. But new to the tier game. So it is natural to think tier status actually means something.
And silver/gold is difficult to achieve coming from plebhood, so you think you have done a hard job and should be handsomely rewarded.
So I can see how a silver buys in to the marketing 110% and easily does a few DYKWIA moves, before becoming the jaded tier member as the rest of us.