Tony,
They're just yanking your chain with the fake words or respect and appreciation. When I hit the "full member" level I got a cake, a hundred bucks and a stripper all with a card that said "thanks from CVO website." If you don't get the same stuff it's got to mean either they don't like you, they don't like foreigners or they don't like yellow !!!!
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translation: From "The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang" by Tony Thorne (Pantheon Books, New York, 1990; originally published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing, 1990):
"YANK (SOMEONE AROUND/SOMEONE'S CHAIN) -- vb. American to mislead, deceive, harass or irrate. The image on which the expression is based is that of a chained or leashed animal or prisoner being thoughtlessly or maliciously jerked about or led in different directions..."
The image I have is more benign -- a cartoon scenario of a bulldog on a chain and a cat, or whatever, accidently pulling the chain. And there's a variation, "Who pulled your string?" referring to talking dolls that are activated by pulling out a string in their backs. Remember Chatty Cathy?