Quote Originally Posted by lHuntey View Post
Personally, I think this rule is pointless, and should be removed for the following reasons:

- Your not harming anybody in asking
- Its not really a bad thing to do
- Members can make their own minds up on weather to rep the user or not.
- If somebody gets into trouble for asking for rep, that's pathetic and really unappealing.
The first 2 are the same thing and the 4th one is just wth? It isn't supposed to be appealing! They don't give you flowers when you break other rules and don't give you flowers when you ask for rep just to make it unappealing.

The rule is there because people put "rep me and i'll rep you back!" in their sig which encouraged pointless repping and made the system a bit pointless. If you knew you were going to get a reward for doing it you're more likely to do it.