Negativity police are after me! Help!
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Posted on: 2009-09-26 12:44 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal
The thing I LIKE about rep or at least the presence of the system, is that you can comment aside from making a post about something. Without derailing the thread, in other words.
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Also, I enjoy some of the crazy negative comments people come up with.
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Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal
The thing I LIKE about rep or at least the presence of the system, is that you can comment aside from making a post about something. Without derailing the thread, in other words.
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There I was between a rock and a hard place. Then I thought, "What am I doing on this side of the rock?"
Personally, I find it amusing when I get negative rep and positive rep for the same post.
I don't bother awarding negative rep, if I feel someone is truly deserving of negative rep on a continuing basis I put them on ignore. Like some other people, I do use positive rep when I agree with a post but don't really have anything to add to the thread.
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i dont recall you as a negative poster, its probably because you like to argue with people who have ideas of debatable quality and they go for the cheap hit afterward. and yes, i have gotten a neg and pos rep on the same post too, just means that the topic has active supporters and detractors i'm guessing.
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Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal
The thing I LIKE about rep or at least the presence of the system, is that you can comment aside from making a post about something. Without derailing the thread, in other words.
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You can do that without the rep system.
It's called "sending a freaking private message."
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Anonymous down repping is cowardly.
I don't use rep as a tool specifically to disagree or agree with anyone. To me that's not what it's for, when I disagree, I either post to say so or just roll my eyes at such blatant incorrectness and move on. When I give rep, it's all based on how the poster puts their ideas across.
Even if I completely disagree with someone, if they make a logical case, or are witty or clever with words, I give them positive rep. Whether I generally approve of them or not as a poster is in my opinion irrelevant. Obviously, people who get good rep from me with almost always coincide with my general approval of them, but I've given red to people who I otherwise liked as well. If someone's a jerk or being condescending or insulting, they get red regardless of whether they're on my "side" or not.
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Originally Posted by Satanic_Hamster
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You can do that without the rep system. It's called "sending a freaking private message." |
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I get more negative rep for my neutral or goofy posts than I do for negative or contrary opinions. Usually a contrary opinion or argumentative post will get roughly the same amounts of neg and pos. Or lots of grey.
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Originally Posted by Razoras
I get more negative rep for my neutral or goofy posts than I do for negative or contrary opinions. Usually a contrary opinion or argumentative post will get roughly the same amounts of neg and pos. Or lots of grey.
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Scanning through my rep comments today, it seems I have an inclusion to make. Here's a comment out of there:
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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While I wouldn't go quite as far as you have into the psychology and sociology of people (mainly because I live in a different country from most of you, so I wouldn't really know), I HAVE noticed a recurring problem with Suggestions and Ideas in this vein. People post an idea, and be it good or bad, they get a few people who flatout say "no," but in more words. The problem is then the original owner of the idea and the detractors go into a flamewar about attitude and respect, whereas I personally feel it's a lit more productive to either ignore people who dislike the idea (as they cannot be made to like it) or try to convince them. And trust me, I've taken a lot of heat for disagreeing with ideas or trying to warp them into something I would like more. In fact, one of my "negativity" comments came about from one such thread (I don't remember where the other came from, and it has scrolled off the page since).|
Originally Posted by Eisregen_NA
As for people secretly leaving you negative notes because you openly said negative things, that's just the culture of the modern day and age. I've been called insensitive for calling people to task on being irresponsible to the point where they were literally putting people's lives in danger. This is the same kind of culture that awards medals for 23rd place, borne out of some grand idea that everyone's special and unique and worthy of admiration and no precious budding flower should ever be crushed by being told just how bad their ideas really are, how faulty their thought processes, how flawed their vision (I swear, this is not a Jack Emmert dig).
Which is, of course, all poppycock. Raise a child in a sterile environment, and the first time they catch the sniffles in the real world, they'll be hovering on death's door. Also, the backstabbery people perpetrate on those who literally have the spine to stand erect from these huddled servants of conformity shows that the system isn't working to begin with. Or else, shouldn't these masturbatory sycophants be encouraging you to be negative? |
Personally, when I post an idea, I actually enjoy seeing people point out problems with it, even if they can't offer solutions to them. The Suggestions forum, the few chronic disagreers notwithstanding, is a place where you post your ideas when you feel they're solid enough for people to punch holes in them and rip them apart, so next time you suggest them, they'll be that much more solid. At least that's how I see it. I do enjoy people posting things like "/signed" and "I like it!" but, to me, posts of the "I don't like this because..." are actually the most constructive.
Wow... Maybe I really am that negative
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Wow... Maybe I really am that negative
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Just keep posting the way you do I'm finding people are negative repping for some of the dumbest things anyways. 
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Ive always wonder what a person rep is, green or red, when they have there rep turned off.
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Originally Posted by tuter_king
Ive always wonder what a person rep is, green or red, when they have there rep turned off.
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Rep up, not down. Never down, why bother? Trying to give someone a bad image? That's not very nice, besides in a post worth down repping I am sure people create an image for themselves.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
While I wouldn't go quite as far as you have into the psychology and sociology of people (mainly because I live in a different country from most of you, so I wouldn't really know)
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The other day, I'm on my way home from work. There's some major renovation going on at a hub of the elevated train network, so they're rerouting commuters with buses. It's a steady process but a bus can only handle so many people, so there's a large group of people waiting on their spot.
Through this mass of people, a young woman comes riding her bicycle, not racing but not exactly slowing down either. There's a reason adults are not supposed to ride their bicycles across the sidewalk or through improvised bus stops. People are having to dodge and dart left and right to actually get out of the way of the ***** on her bike. Until she gets to me, of course. Me, I stare her down until it's obvious she won't actually stop, then I just sidestep a little and elbow the ***** in the chest. Not hard enough, unfortunately, as she kept on going for a few more feet, then she comes to a halt and the resulting exchange went like this:
She: "Well, thanks for elbowing me."
Me: "Well, thanks for driving on the ******* sidewalk and making everyone run for their lives."
She: "I had a bad day."
Me: "Yeah, and now you got a bruise on top of it. Wouldn't have happened if you'd actually taken the designated bicycle track."
She: "Are you German? You look German."
Me: "Yeah...?"
She: "Cause you sound like a Nazi. Are you a Nazi?"
Me (laughing hard): "Hold on a second, you're the one who's not following traffic rules and incoveniencing people to say the least and I'm a Nazi for calling you on it?"
She: "Yeah."
Now, if she'd been my type this would have made for great foreplay, but alas, she wasn't. And yes, I know someone's gonna be upset about me punching a woman, but that's equality for you. If you want equal treatment, you'll have to take the good with the bad.
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I think you're the kind of person I'm ******** about in my first post in this thread. Giving someone 'bad Rep' is not nice, granted. But some people have it coming to them. I'm not saying anyone is gonna take bad Rep seriously and change their wicked ways from getting any. I know I usually point and laugh at bad Rep. I prefer to deal with people by attacking them right where they stand, case in point.|
Originally Posted by New Dawn
Rep up, not down. Never down, why bother? Trying to give someone a bad image? That's not very nice, besides in a post worth down repping I am sure people create an image for themselves.
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But if someone feels that a poster is being a retard or disingenuous or just flat-out wrong-headed, then the forums allow them to let that person know. It is their good right to exercise the means the forums allow them to brand posters they feel are toxic. Giving someone what they're due is outside the frame of reference for 'nice'. It's either justified or not.
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I've never liked any kind of rep system on a forum. If you've ever posted on any of the allakhazam forums you'll know why. They've got something they call "karma" which is pretty much the same as rep, except on that forum if you get rated down enough your posts get labeled as "sub-default" and the default filter settings automatically hide your posts from everyone.