-rep suggestion

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Originally Posted by Saurav

Agreed, it just causes more arguments. I would rather someone argues with me in a thread by posting than via -rep - as you can't even reply to the -rep as it will just get removed as revenge rep.

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Yeh agreed. Everyone has different opinions so there will always be disagreements, I to would much rather have that person state their opinion in the thread as opposed to stating it in a -rep because at least then we can have a controlled discussion (not going to say argument) in the thread rather than in a revenge -rep which will only get removed and cause more problems.

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Originally Posted by buttons

in FAQ it says
"Red Rep
When you do something bad you will most likely receive Red rep which is classed as bad. This will also cause your reputation count / points to decrease. You may be bad (Red) repped for the following reasons: -
-Pointless Posting
-Double posting
-Being rude
-Breaking the forum rules
Red reputation is displayed as a Red block. ."
(overkill on the word 'bad' jfc)
:S it's stupid, if someone -repped me for pointless posting i'd ask for it to get removed and it probably would be...

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That is changed in my revised FAQ which will be being changed soon, but if we remove -rep altogether it may not be necessary :P

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Originally Posted by buttons

in FAQ it says
"Red Rep
When you do something bad you will most likely receive Red rep which is classed as bad. This will also cause your reputation count / points to decrease. You may be bad (Red) repped for the following reasons: -
-Pointless Posting
-Double posting
-Being rude
-Breaking the forum rules
Red reputation is displayed as a Red block. ."
(overkill on the word 'bad' jfc)
:S it's stupid, if someone -repped me for pointless posting i'd ask for it to get removed and it probably would be...

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Indeed. It was written by Baving in 2005 so its very old. Its better to just report the person.

I'm not sure if it should be scrapped because it's sometimes useful for the Web Market section, because if someone scammed you you're most likely going to -rep them and it would help others because i'm sure they would never buy something off a person with lots of negative rep.

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Originally Posted by Skizzling

I'm not sure if it should be scrapped because it's sometimes useful for the Web Market section, because if someone scammed you you're most likely going to -rep them and it would help others because i'm sure they would never buy something off a person with lots of negative rep.

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Its very rare for a person to get a negative block and you are not allowed to accuse members of scamming anyway.

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Originally Posted by Skizzling

I'm not sure if it should be scrapped because it's sometimes useful for the Web Market section, because if someone scammed you you're most likely going to -rep them and it would help others because i'm sure they would never buy something off a person with lots of negative rep.

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A scammer could scam many people before his rep turned red, if it did they would probably just make a new account anyway.

-rep is pointless, it just causes people to argue over it and just pointless -rep back.

I think it should be scrapped because people only really use it to get back at others or to start and argument!

I find it quite ironic, Saurav, that you want to scrap -rep because it causes arguments :P

I think we should keep negative reputation. Brandon does a good job moderating it.

reputation is a good way of new members seeing who's trusted and who's not...

why get rid of something that's not broke?

if you think a -rep is pointless or revenge rep then just post in the pointless rep thread...............

when ever i join a new forum, i trust people who have lots of green bars and people who have red rep i dont trust or listen to...

someone might get lots of good rep and then turn around and be a total *** or turn into a troll but they'd still keep the green rep?
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