Best way to deal with negative reputation?

I know this is kind of an odd question, but how do you (generic) deal with people who give negative rep without signing their name?

Just today, for example, I had a positive reputation from someone who signed their name (thank you), and a negative reputation for THE EXACT SAME THING, with no name.

It bothers me because I feel like it's an attack I can't defend against.

How should I deal with it? Ignore it entirely? Change what they didn't like so I don't get further negative rep? Do what they suggest in hopes they will come back and give me positive rep?

IMO, you should just ignore it. You can't please everybody.

You can also collapse the comments section by clicking the little minus sign to the right of it.

QFT.

I also recommend staying out of any rep farming forum games, since it destroys the whole purpose.

As far as I can tell, negative rep is about as important as a melted popsicle in July. It's kind of disappointing but, really, it doesn't matter anymore

Positive rep is just about the same.

Ignore it, revel in it, revile it, lament it, praise it, spread it around, fight it...

any or all of the above is a suitable response.

Just disable rep. i did that before i ever even posted on the boards here. i hate rep based systems.

ETA: i used to run a busy forum that defaulted to "rep on" and i quickly found that trolls LOVE rep as a way of getting attention. Negative attention being better than no attention. They would go out of their way to stir the pot just to get ppl to give them more negative rep.

I don't know how to write a guide though =/ I didn't have enough room to add all the pleases I wanted to. I'll just cut it back to the first line, that'll probably be enough without being inflammatory.

[QUOTE=Lemur_Lad;2077903]A short guide with a link in your sig would be less inflammatory. Even better would be to open a discussion in the City Life section and get a broader sample of people's feelings through the community ...[QUOTE]

And even better would be to initiate a Royal Commission into the matter, empowered with the ability to subpoena witnesses to testify, and ensure a report, complete with recommendations to the forum moderators, is presented by the end of the calendar year.

:P

FWIW, Sun, I generally treat the rep comments on here like I do comments on my YouTube channel. Well-thought-out negative responses, while I may not like or agree, tend to get more respect from me than "u suk". I figure, if they're too stupid to comment intelligently, they're not worth caring about.

But if it bothers you, then by all means, disable the rep feature for your account and minimize that part of your profile.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Everyone here has givin good advice. I don't see any sence in a rep system myself. It really makes no difference to me at all. I only see people as letters on my screen when it comes to the internet. Nothing should bother you that anyone would say or do on here cause frankly, they dont know you heh..
It is fun to rile people sometimes though like I have today to see how bad my rep can get lol.(*I have only done it since the rep system!*) I have really found out today that there are a lot of people that really dont read posts all the way through, and they love to twist words.

People take things way to seriously on here. People most of the time arent themselves on the net anyway, so the rep system is extremely flawed IMO.

Most of the comments I have been getting is just random letters like, asdfghjklk with a negitive rep attached to it. Funny stuff. Do Not let your feelings get hurt over this rep system. People are people and most are jerks. I believe that if the clicky for the rep was a knife people would stab ya in the back as long as noone knew they did it.

Just disable the thing, or have fun with it, or cater to everyone which is impossible. It means absolutly nothing.

I remember when the old forums had stars. There were mulitiple "Plz 5 star meh!" posts, as well as a few outraged "I lost a star" rants. If anyone posted that they felt a particular power or powerset was overpowered or unbalanced in terms of the rest of the powers of that AT, then they could expect to be a one starrer in very short order. It differed in that there was no way to shut off the star rates by the user.

Eventually the forum gods removed the stars altogether, for everyone. I have a feeling that if people get as obessed about their repuation as they did about the stars, the same thing might happen again.

*shrug*

Let the mods know how much you enjoy the rep "feature".

Unpublish your arc then republish it and whammo - one star rating is now gone.

Wait, did I get that right?

ignore it, if this forum is anything like the animesuki forums I frequent (who have the exact same rep system) people who abuse it can get in trouble for doing so.

I got a neg rep because someone apparantly doesn't like the pic in my sig. I figure if that's the only thing they can think of to dislike about me, then I must be doing pretty darn good.

What? They disliked the biohazard symbol or our friends the floating eyeballs with teeth? Guess they've never been to the shadow shard or was around for the Issue 2 event.

I dislike sig pics myself. I just don't like having to scroll past them over and over again. But it seems to me that just disabling images is a more productive way to deal with this issue than neg rating people.