Best way to deal with negative reputation?

the punchline is that the post i was responding to was quoted

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Originally Posted by SunGryphon All I want to know is "Why?" Is it fun? Do you get jollies off from it? Is your middle name Schadenfreude? Do you like to kick people for no reason? Do you simply use the anonymity of the internet to cause other people grief? I'm simply trying to understand why someone would do something that, to me, is totally abhorrent.

voting people down on the internet is not something i consider abhorrent

normally, i would reserve the use of the word "abhorrent" for really bad things like, i dunno, genocide or torture, but hey, i guess we've got different priorities

In my experience with vBulletin boards, Rep.. isn't really that big of a deal.

It's kind of like Post Count. Something you'd love to have a bunch of, but even if you don't, it's not that bad. If you get neg rep, oh well. I've had my friends neg rep me for fun.

Though, I heard if you get more than 1000 positive rep, it says you're the equivilent of Chuck Norris..

Xegreny - Blaster|Level 50|Energy Blast Energy Manipulation Force Mastery|Vigilante
Taxibot REBIRTH - Defender|Level 50|Empathy & Sonic Blast & Psychic Mastery|Hero
Acton Blake - Dominator|Level 15|Electric Control & Electric Assault|Praetorian-Loyalist

i'm not sure you really understood what i was getting at but you probably got the gist so i guess that's alright

Although a beer at the White House isn't feasible, a margarita at BDs is. I'm buying.

I'll cut to the chase, especially since I could give two spits (-p +h ) about my reputation. Don't be a D-bag. It's plain and frickin' simple. Look, just because you may feel slighted by the cards that life has dealt you and now you have the power to potentially hurt someone's feelings and then target that individual because you don't like their view points, doesn't mean you should walk around the sidewalk burning the feelers off the damn ants.

Some people are more sensitive than others, all that's being said here is don't spam the negative rep simply because you disagree. That's friggin' asinine.

Someone earlier mentioned that a-holes aren't going to drop off the internet, and that person was right. But it's also no reason to perpetuate the issue and act like a flaming jackass.

Feel free to negative rep me, I like being a bad boy. I stand behind my feelings. I personally don't like the whole "reputation" in posts anyways. Makes one more damn thing on this earth a popularity contest. Go on ladies, it's show time.

/rant

Biggy out.

wow bigtop those negative rep-givers you described are sure bitter, antagonistic strawmen

i sure hope i never meet one of them

OK, that avatar is freaky _____.

Not to sound like a broken record but...ignore it. Life's too short to worry about stuff like that.

Didn't wanna start a new thread for this question. So I'll just throw it here...

Sometimes you get a 'green' rep. Sometimes you get 'red' rep...

But sometimes I get a 'grey' rep in my rep list. What is that? Is it neutral rep? How can you give neutral rep to someone? And what's the point?

there are minimum post count and reputation count variables in vbulletin that the admin can set
if you don't meet them, you leave neutral rep

don't ask me what they're set at here because i have no idea