-rep question

[Richie]

yeah kinda. In my opinion they should put in a system where if you give -rep for no reason, you get like 10 -rep and a caution. Then again, people don't really take rep seriously I think, just wondered and it came to my mind lol

Imo no rep is pointless though. If someone -reps me because they don't like me that is my fault for doing whatever I did in the first place to make them dislike me.

[Samantha]

I disagree, it still counts as revenge rep. Besides, if someone is pestering management constantly crying that they got -rep'd the chances are even if it's valid it may still be removed as it's just wasting managements time arguing with the person in question, it'll also just lead to futher arguments.


*Waits for management to reply with something along the lines of 'we would do no such thing'*

This is correct. I remember -repping someone first for a valid reason (no rude comment or anything and was even told it wouldn't be removed) yet they -repped me 4/5 times. I then got warned saying I should stop 'revenge repping' as apparently they -repped me first when they didn't lmao.

[HotelUser]

*Be right back, I'm going to issue negative reputation to every person who's issued me negative reputation but it wont be considered revenge reputation because I wont mention any posts or other reputation comments.*

Okay, so I'm not going to do that, but a lot of folks are now. I'm not sure why this rule was revised because there was nothing wrong with the previous rule. It made more sense. It's human nature to want to get revenge on someone who's wronged you in your own eyes, and if you issue negative reputation to someone and then that person gives it to you right back then it's pretty obvious that it was out of revenge.

You've essentially rendered the revenge reputation rule completely redundant now because folks will just word their revenge reputation comments such that they don't violate the new revenge reputation rule. You might as well have just removed the revenge reputation rule altogether.

It seems like this was probably a split second decision because it doesn't seem like it was thought through very well.