Negative Rep

I do believe that being honest with yourself, and having the strength of heart to live accordingly, is one of the most useful and rewarding traits that anyone can develop in themself.

You don't strike me as a dog person.

 

I say "uff" too.

 

I would also make the observation that having a rep system makes people dull (popularise) their posts or avoid certain topics in them in order to gather positive rep or avoid negative rep. Additionally, it's quite possible that people who do this have nothing much of value to say anyway and, therefore, it doesn't really matter.

 

Don't you just love it when they neg rep you, and don't have the balls to leave their name?

Seriously, its not like I can do anything about it. Cowards....

 

Everyone keep saying its only the internet and dont take everything serious..but really this time of the year we are we do more on the internet now rather then out of the net..so why see it as a joke only ...i agree we should not let bad comment affect us but still does not mean we can say and do anything and then just say its ok only on the internet.

 

+1

 

Yep! I've thought this too, before the Rep system certain people posted in ways that do not resemble how they post now.

I've recieved positive rep and neg rep, neg rep never fails to amuse me TBH, I think if you stick to an honest opinion and throw in a bit of wit you cannot go wrong.

I personally won't adjust my opinions to fit in with the rep system, but in all fairness I tend not to have an opinion on who is the Latest Hottest MILF just lately or quite a few of the other topics.

 

lippy would be sitting in jail 90% of the time if she said what was really on her mind...you all have no idea what i could unleash at any moment:smt079

 

I find it pretty funny when people get so upset about negative rep, that they feel the need to inform the whole forum about it. Then everyone goes 'aww! no way! I'll give you rep to make up for it!'
What the hell, why? If someone disagrees with your friends' statement in real life, you don't go out and buy them a cake to make up for it.
I personally have never given a negative rep but I have received it and I have no problems with it when someone disagrees with a point I've made in a thread. If someone disagrees with you, someone disagrees with you. Why get so pissy about it? Why care if they left their names or not? Why take it so personally?! People disagree with you in real life, so it's inevitable that it's going to happen here as well.
Trying to find out 'that ball-less bastard who left me negative rep!!!!' isn't going to change or achieve anything, so just chill out.

The only thing I'm against is someone leaving negative rep for photos, I've heard of a few people getting that. That's unfair in my opinion. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. We're talking about people's appearance here and it's a very sensitive subject so having a sly little dig via negative rep is just mean.

 

that is sometype of reliefe sound.

 

First off, I kinda don't think we gals should be talking about negative rep at all. I don't think we get half of what the guys get. Maybe I'm wrong about that, but I tend to be abrasive in debates, yet I almost never get negative rep.

Secondly, anonymous negative rep is cowardly and sad.

Thirdly, I don't get how people find it normal to come online to look for love or lust, but find it abnormal to care what is said about them online. Do you care what people IRL say to you? Of course, there's that age where we all say "I don't give a damn what anyone says" but that's bullshit and we all know it. If some random stranger came up to you on the street and started talking about your appearance, or age, or attractiveness, or intelligence, or mother, or any other common internet insults -- you'd be pissed. If it was someone at work or school who you saw every single day, you'd be even more annoyed.

Just because the internet is intangible does not mean you stop being a real person while you're here, nor does typing your statements make them irrelevant. They have the same weight and strength that they have in the real world, there just aren't any repercussions.

It is indeed admirable to find yourself above any insults that come your way. More than admirable, it is wise, and a healthy survival technique.

However, it is no less admirable to care about those around you -- although doing so makes you vulnerable to them should they attack. Internet bullying is so damned fun, so easy to find someone's soft spot and twist, so rewarding to try new techniques and phrasing to get just the desired result ... but it's easy to overlook that the best results come with the victim actually gives a damn what you think of them, which makes it very easy to be very cruel online.

I rarely (maybe twice) have given negative rep, and I've never really been bothered by negative rep I've received, but I wouldn't ever put someone down for being hurt by something they found in their rep. Caring about what the community you have chosen for yourself thinks of you isn't a flaw, it's just a vulnerability. Those are not the same thing.