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I kindly request all members to totally forget about the negative rep button when it comes to personal issues. That button is existed right there to be used when you are in your total wise thinking, and not when you are pissed because of some argument you are into or something, Or just because someone has neg repped you!
Using that button for personal reasons can seriously result in causing too much of unfair stuff....

So please, if you don't have enough wisdom and justice to use that button, then just don't use it at all!

It's really the time for humanity to take a dump.

I usually get little kiddies neg-repping me; I tend to do it back since they take it so personally. I agree with you though Abdullah; people should be giving reputation out based on the quality of the post, not based on their personal relations with the other people.

Good examples of using reputation:

- Someone provides an in-depth and thoughtful piece of advice = +rep

- Someone is trolling, is being abusive, or is otherwise in need of a good slap = -rep

Bad example of using reputation:

- You want to fuck the other person, so you give them +rep.

- You hate the other person, so you give them -rep.


Then again, the reputation system has and always will be flawed on this forum...so there's no point trying to establish rules for it.

Agreed. People are far too pissy and just negative rep you back because you neg repped them for something DESERVING of a neg rep. People need to realize that's not what it's for and people should report it to mods/admins when that happens. I only neg rep when truly deserving and even then I second guess doing it. So yeah, people realize what it's for and report when being misused so those misusing it can be warned/infraction/realize it's not right, etc.

Also @Capitan, @Bryant

I request and think it would be very good for the community that we put in the rules that misusing the negative rep is against the rules, with examples of how it's misused, repping someone because they neg repped you, doing it on okay posts or just because you don't like the person, etc. That way mods have the authority over warning/infraction members who misuse it.

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Dearest, The days are all so long,
and in the shadows I spend them all.
My heart and I long for slumber.
Slumber I'm caressing you, I bless your touch, I lust for you.
Slumber you are not a dream, Not as much as you seem.
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It would be nice considering most of my negative reputations points have been from trolls, dickheads or members who are giving it out due to personal vendetta's

Sorry ladies and gentlemen that I earned each and every one of my points through giving out advice and being helpful, unlike you wannabes who got it because your "besties wub u".

Yeah exactly, I work hard to get the rep I have and just about all of them are for advice and stuff. So it pisses me off when people use neg rep for their own pissy little reasons.
So... that being said id reallyreallyreally like it being put into the rules that you can't misuse it. I like the idea of neg rep though it kills me when i get it, sometimes people need to realize and neg rep helps with that.

Little white flowers will never awaken you, not when the cold depths have all but overtaken you.

Dearest, The days are all so long,
and in the shadows I spend them all.
My heart and I long for slumber.
Slumber I'm caressing you, I bless your touch, I lust for you.
Slumber you are not a dream, Not as much as you seem.
- Joao <3

I neg rep is good if people want to use it leave them to do as they please if people don't like it then they don't have to read it if people get upset about stupid littloe bars on a screen thy need to grow a thicker skin real life is worse than online.

I'll use a -rep when i feel like it; it's like.. why should you +rep some one because they called you cool? It's the same principle.
If people do not like the Rep system, then they can deactivate it.

Likewise, the people who give it out for silly reasons need to grow up and stop being immature.

Anyway; negative reputation doesn't bother me. What does bother me is when people use it as a form of abuse that isn't dealt with by staff.

I think the rep is discretionary. Like, I really don't care if someone negative reps me. If anything, I find it amusing that someone is going to take the time to bring me down for a stupid reason. The only time I use -rep is if they say something really offensive/out of line.

"A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance".- T.S. Eliot

Speaking as a member:

I'll neg rep any post that I find deserving of a neg rep. I honestly don't care who the poster is - if that post just wreaks - you'll find a neg rep from me in your notifications.

Speaking as a moderator:

Guys, its just a rep system. It has no real meaning on anything except to indicate how well received your posts are. There is no one on this site who hasn't received a fair share of rep points just because they have friends who like them and thus want to give them rep. Any value the rep system had was blown away when we incorporated the "Did you find this helpful" into the rep system. At this point, now it seems like we police this to prevent bickering.

But here's the thing, even when I have neg repped in the past - I knew I'd more than likely get one back. Its the way it works. Stop complaining.

But, I do very much agree with Abdullah. Exercise of self control from everyone would be a nice change.

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