Reputation System: Dramatics and Whining

[Kraco]

Yeah. I have only received a few hits ever since. Generally speaking (personally I don't think I have made that many great posts worth repping after the overhaul) from my point of view I'm inclined to think it's because the hits don't matter so much anymore (as reaching the reward will take a long time indeed), and so there isn't as much initiative to rep. This would of course indicate as well that many people were truly aiming for the custom title as a reason to rep at all, or mostly.

However, that's probably a highly biased opinion. Maybe in truth it's just a coincidence, and partially due to the fact the forums seem to have been somewhat quiet of late.

[Kraco]

A comment that agrees with your post, yet the hit is negative... Now I have got more than one of these. Although there wasn't much of an impact with either, it still begs the question whether the "I approve" and "I disapprove" aren't quite clear to all people. Maybe somebody thinks it doesn't mean you judge the post, but it's used to either approve or disapprove the greater matter that was being addressed in the post? And so if your post was a negative answer to something, the "I disapprove" would be agreeing with you by also being negative..?

On the other hand, maybe they were just ironic comments that were lost on me (irony rarely works over the Internet, as everybody should know. With almost no exception it's taken as hostile sarcasm).

[Assassin]

i did that once, but that was cuz i was giving a negative comment, but in my haste i forgot to change it to 'disapprove'. So the guy got a +rep hit with a negative comment. But that was only once

[ChaosK]

i did that once, but that was cuz i was giving a negative comment, but in my haste i forgot to change it to 'disapprove'. So the guy got a +rep hit with a negative comment. But that was only once

His case however, is the opposite. The person took the precious time to click on "disapprove" and left him with a good comment. Now, a person accidently forgetting to click "disapprove" is more likely than a person intentionally clicking "disapprove" and not meaning it no?

[RyougaZell]

I find awesome someone thinks Im gay for a post I made in march

[Kraco]

There's a conspiracy againt people writing properly

"thanks for writing properly" and negative points.

Should I start to write improperly to retain my rep?

English is not my first language, so I always strive to write it as well as I can. I don't know why that would offend anybody; this is the first time I witnessed such a thing. Normally people writing poorly get bashing. Well, there is the first time for everything, I suppose.

[mage]

I did that. I meant to positive rep you, sorry