Reputation Disabled and How to Avoid it

[Blue]

Q: What is the reputation disabled usergroup?
A: It's a way to deal with people who abuse the reputation system.

Q: What constitutes reputation abuse?
Any one of several discouraged actions - in roughly ascending order of severity:

"Repwhoring" - Getting involved in a circle of friends to rep each other as much as possible and/or continually asking for rep, either with or without contributing something to be repped for.

Posting obnoxiously large or offensive images in reputation comments.

Leaving nothing but or almost nothing but negitive reputations or repeatedly leaving negative reputation for the same member for no good reason.

Revenge negging (Member A neg reps Member B, Member B negs Member A back).

Using flaming, cursing, and insults in reputation comments.

Leaving someone else's name with a negative rep.

Q: What are the consequences of being rep disabled?

A: You will not be able to give or recieve reputation from or to anyone for the duration of your rep ban. If you were a senior member, your PM and avatar allowances will revert back to normal user levels.

Q: How longs do rep bans last? Will I get a warning?

A: It depends on the type of rep abuse and the discretion of the moderator. Usually not less than two weeks. Frequent flaming in reputation and missigning reps can get you permanently disabled without warning. Since a rep ban does not restrain you from any other aspect of the forum, it's regarded as much less severe than a ban and can be placed without warning.

Q: What is the difference between rep disabled and disabled rep?
A: The former is a restriction from repping, the latter is making it so that others cannot see your rep bars, nor your rep-acquired title (like "is Celestial" or such).

[Aman]

Good idea. :amuse

[~ Masamune ~]

I wonder which mods are the Rep strike Team^^ hunting repwhores and such.

[Tayuya (the banned one)]

Listen to Blue.

Don't do drugs....and be like me~!

[Kagakusha]

I wonder which mods are the Rep strike Team^^ hunting repwhores and such.

It's a team effort. Watch out, we strike at any given time. :amuse

[Jink]

you should also make it that when someone leaves a rep (be it good or bad) it leaves a name automatically... if its possible

[skmt999]

What a wonderful idea!! *applauds*

Hm, time to start flaming people.... Who to start with.... hmmm....

[Shroomsday]

As I understand it, they used to have that option on. It was disabled because people would just return any negative rep they recieved.

[Kucheeky Badkuya]

Good move.

Its good, the staff is being more serious on rep whoring. Previously, it was a slap on the wrist for whoring, now you can be disabled quicker.

[Chi]

EEeemmm...
Good work I guess :P

Will the victims get their rep restored after the rep-abuse?

[skmt999]

Anyone been slapped with this yet? :evil

[Vegeta]

Many have been rep-banned.

[Kagakusha]

As I understand it, they used to have that option on. It was disabled because people would just return any negative rep they recieved.

Bingo. secks

[Reznor]

Bingo. *gives prize*

[Sublime]

As I understand it, they used to have that option on. It was disabled because people would just return any negative rep they recieved.

http://www.bartcop.com/mrt-big.jpg

I pity da fool who doesn't take his neg reps like a man.

[Aman]

Fools like you? :amuse

[Mukuro]

Nice move... That's more like it smile-big

[I Я k1nj3]

Many have been rep-banned.


indeed :amuse




this is silly:oh

[Kira Yamato]

Wow, we've actually come to the point where this FAQ was actually neccessary.


* Leaving someone else's name with a negative rep.

Seriously, who would do such a thing? xDD
Please, tell me it's not people who's been here long enough to know better -__-

Well, fortunately the only one who's ever broken the rules through neg repping me has already been permed banned (mostly likely for something else entirely different :laugh)

[Aman]

This is making the FLT go inactive! :cry

[Reznor]

This is making the FLT go inactive! :cry
Real FAQ > Convo in a FAQ section.

indeed

this is silly

We've been doing this for a long time now. It's better than a ban over repping, eh?

[I Я k1nj3]

We've been doing this for a long time now. It's better than a ban over repping, eh?

that would be even more silly :omg, but that's just my opinion

[Sublime]

Fools like you? :amuse

Oh no you didnt, *smacks you with my pimp cane*

[ninamori]

Seriously, who would do such a thing? xDD
Please, tell me it's not people who's been here long enough to know better -__-
Somebody did that to me. Used my name in a neg rep, and the person that was negged hated me for ages. It kinda sucked.

Yeah....

[skmt999]

I had someone sign their neg rep to me with another name, once. I was kinda confused, since it really didn't make much sense for the name in question to have negged me for what I'd said. I'm sure it happens all the time. Misdirection.

Keep people off your back, and implicate a third party at the same time. Brilliant, if you don't have the brains to fear banning.

[legan]

Using flaming, cursing, and insults in reputation comments.

Leaving someone else's name with a negative rep.


I must apologise. I did the neg rep thing once because I wanted to see a fight between Vince and Utah =/ didn't work out but still I'm sorry.

And I may have said a few bad things to Utahcrip via neg rep due to the fact I think he's an idiot and in my defence every post I negged him for proves it.

Still that's not an excuse.

My apologies again v_v

[Dommy]

Leaving someone else's name with a negative rep.

Someone gave me a postive rep with other's name on it before. :oh

-
Wonder if it's a good/bad thing. :imslow

[I Я k1nj3]

i can't suscribe to any threads because of my rep ban O_O

is this also part of the punishment T_T?

[Sayo]

i can't suscribe to any threads because of my rep ban O_O

is this also part of the punishment T_T?
Absolutely, plus the following side affects of your punishments.

- You will be unable to sneeze
- you like vegetables
- you're mother will leave your family
- You will optain a crack addiction from a russian hooker.
- you realise you are not a descendent of batman or peter parker.

[I Я k1nj3]

- you like vegetables

:omg i'm doomed :(

[Robotkiller]

Take it from robotkiller.

Rep whoreing is no laughing matter:(

[OniTasku]

And here I was wondering why a good portion of the Spamsuki regulars had Transcendant ranks and a rep ban. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle.

[Robotkiller]

Well knowledge IS power:laugh

[jkingler]

There should be a three strikes rule regarding repwhoring. Three strikes and your rep is reset. :knk

On second thought, maybe two strikes. :oh

[OniTasku]

There should be a three strikes rule regarding repwhoring. Three strikes and your rep is reset. :knk

On second thought, maybe two strikes. :oh

That actually sounds like a really good idea. Repwhoring should be discouraged, and that would hopefully deter people from comitting such acts.

[skmt999]

I third this motion. It sounds like an excellent notion.

[Q]

There should be a three strikes rule regarding repwhoring. Three strikes and your rep is reset. :knk

On second thought, maybe two strikes. :oh
I love it, but it requires too much work to be actually enforced.
We don't have infinite Admins, although it would be nice to have more than four.

That, and a fair portion of the mod team fears any motion that might royally piss off a significant portion of the members and/or members with significant power/influence.

[skmt999]

Sounds like fun. I can't imagine any of the mods turning down the chance to piss people off by resetting their rep when it's abused. :nuts

Not enough admins for the job? Make a couple more then. With all the mod/smod/admin changes lately, no one will even notice.

[mister. pek]

No need for warnings unless it is some complete noob. Most rep whores know what they are doing and leaving messages like "Rep whorage, they can't stop us" in their comments.

1 month if it some minor offense, perm if its repeated and/or more extremer offenses.

'Spamasuki' look out, Ill be there to cut your tails off soon enough.

[Q]

Not enough admins for the job? Make a couple more then. With all the mod/smod/admin changes lately, no one will even notice.
You clearly don't know Tazmo well enough.

[skmt999]

Got me there. But by 'no one' I meant the forum populace in general.

peK - I really think warnings would smooth things over. Let the serious offenders know this is serious. If you start smiting people with no warning - or even worse, giving SOME people warnings but not others - that's when a war cry will sound. Discrimination is an ugly word, even when it's accidental. If EVERYONE was given a set number of warnings and told publicly and often about said warnings, I think it would help. And for those too stupid to heed a warning, well they'll just have to suffer the pain of a rep reset. It will only hurt those who actually care about their rep, which is the point.

[Vegeta]

I warn, then ban. But what peK does is acceptable. =D

[Robotkiller]

'Spamasuki' look out, Ill be there to cut your tails off soon enough.

Cutting off my rep is like cutting off my E-PENIS.

But if you guys really think so much of it, never again:sweatdrop

[I Я k1nj3]

i don't really care about my rep,but i want my subscriptions back! :yell

[jkingler]

*Subscribes to thread*

Ah, that is so nice and refreshing! Now I will know whenever someone posts in here without having to browse subforums or wait for it to pop up on the New Posts screen. :knk

:amuse

[I Я k1nj3]

*Subscribes to thread*

Ah, that is so nice and refreshing! Now I will know whenever someone posts in here without having to browse subforums or wait for it to pop up on the New Posts screen. :knk

:amuse


are you really 22? :oh

jk

[jkingler]

are you really 22?
Nope. I just doubled my real age. :sag

[inu-maru]

wouldn't someone just do this: make another e-mail account (i cant remember if you can have more than one account per e-mail) then make a forums account, then neg rep the person over and over (for any reason like, they hate them ore somethin') then when rep banned, delete the account, and the e-mail account and redo the whole thing untill people find out that it's the same guy, and ban his real account as punishment? (not gonna try it! i dont hate anyone here)

[jkingler]

^That would be really pointless, because the new account wouldn't be able to rep until after 50 posts, and even then, the dupe account's rep would be so weak that it wouldn't matter (unless the target was an uber-noob with no rep).

And then the mods would likely delete the negs from the dupe...

Like I said, pointless. :oh

[Shogun]

anyone on sans pariel is a rep whore...

[Reznor]

anyone on sans pariel is a rep whore... Blue/KnK I'm 99% sure is legit though, since she had the highest rep back before repwhoring existed.

[jkingler]

anyone on sans pariel is a rep whore...
You're entitled to your opinion, I suppose. :amuse

[Anthony J. Crowley]

Blue/KnK I'm 99% sure is legit though, since she had the highest rep back before repwhoring existed.

Repwhoring existed back in the days of the Rep-Games.

[Chi]

Rep-Games?
Sounds like fun..
It seems I miseed all the fun again :(

[Anthony J. Crowley]

Those were back in 2004.

[Reznor]

Repwhoring existed back in the days of the Rep-Games. Yeah, but repwhoring had little to no effect back then.

[KuwabaraTheMan]

A: You will not be able to give or recieve reputation from or to anyone for the duration of your rep ban. If you were a senior member, your PM and avatar allowances will revert back to normal user levels.


Is this a new punishment? When I got rep banned a couple of weeks ago I kept my larger avatar.

[Vegeta]

No its the same thing I gave you. It's just that if you tried to upload another Avatar 150 x 150, you would have been denied.

[martryn]

I think I don't like this thread. I neg rep. You have a system in place where we're allowed to. What's the fucking problem with the way I rep? It seems to me that fully half of the "legal" reasons for neg repping someone -i.e. disagreeing with an opinion or a post- is a quick way to get on the mods' shit list. Change the rules or stop bitching.

[Vegeta]

I think I don't like this thread. I neg rep. You have a system in place where we're allowed to. What's the fucking problem with the way I rep? It seems to me that fully half of the "legal" reasons for neg repping someone -i.e. disagreeing with an opinion or a post- is a quick way to get on the mods' shit list. Change the rules or stop bitching.

. :thumbs

[Reznor]

I think I don't like this thread. I neg rep. You have a system in place where we're allowed to. What's the fucking problem with the way I rep? It seems to me that fully half of the "legal" reasons for neg repping someone -i.e. disagreeing with an opinion or a post- is a quick way to get on the mods' shit list. Change the rules or stop bitching. Rep disabled has been in place for awhile.

The people we disable for neg rep though, are the people that use the system as a way to flame people and get their little e-revenge.

[Kucheeky Badkuya]

anyone on sans pariel is a rep whore...

Not true, since all the ones I have seen are uber active and rock.

Its easy for some people to yank reputation in the member fanclubs, it happened to me but when I left it hasn't happened yet. I have been Ascendent for sometime now. Though to honest, reps have always been about the comments for me. They inspire me to be a much better user and help out more. :P

[Nekko-Sama]

Not true, since all the ones I have seen are uber active and rock.

Its easy for some people to yank reputation in the member fanclubs, it happened to me but when I left it hasn't happened yet. I have been Ascendent for sometime now. Though to honest, reps have always been about the comments for me. They inspire me to be a much better user and help out more. :P
Sometimes I notice I will say something specifically because I know someone will neg rep me for it. Not that I am trying to anger people (although my jokes don't always fly) but I want to say something argumentative in a discussion with someone because it makes the discussion better. When it's neg rep for something I believe I don't mind it at all, in fact in a way it's a compliment.

[Reznor]

but I want to say something argumentative in a discussion with someone because it makes the discussion better. When it's neg rep for something I believe I don't mind it at all, in fact in a way it's a compliment. I depends on what way you are being arguementive in.

I don't think that people should neg rep for opinion. Maybe for presentation of opinion, but not opinion.

For instance, if there is a thread about homosexuality and someone starts saying "FUCKING FAGS'LL GO TO HELL!" he'll be the one to hell and back.
If they say "I think that homosexuality isn't natural but rather a choice, since evolution would have faded it out if it were genetic" then he's bringing up a point that helps the thread have a debate.

[Nekko-Sama]

I depends on what way you are being arguementive in.

I don't think that people should neg rep for opinion. Maybe for presentation of opinion, but not opinion.


I agree that presentation is the thing. I prefer concise statements, but I try really hard not to truelly offend. Play a lil stupid for laughs maybe but I don't like flaming.

[Bedlam66]

Rep is stupid anyway I have mine turned off by Default.

[Mukuro]

When will Crush!'s rep seal be removed?

[Hyuuga Neji]

Cham and dyro are both le sans pareil. and they definatly are not repwhores

[Jonas]

Being rep-sealed is like going through rehab. Don't do drugs, kids :'(

[Mukuro]

So can Crush!'s rep seal come off anytime soon?

[CupCæk]

Being rep-sealed is like going through rehab. Don't do drugs, kids :'(

So, it's wanting it more and more until they use the electric shock power of the mind on you and you no longer have a craving for it? ... :nuts

[Spanish Hoffkage]

Rep>>>drug

Each time you want more and on higher dosis.

P.S: Why I find hilarious the "Free Lotu" ban in REZNOR :nuts sig??

[Sasori]

Rep>>>drug

Each time you want more and on higher dosis.

P.S: Why I find hilarious the "Free Lotu" ban in REZNOR :nuts sig??

lol das wot i wos thinkin

[Raptor]

Rep>>>drug

Each time you want more and on higher dosis.

Really? I'm in a love-hate relationship with rep. I get and I lose it all the time.

P.S: Why I find hilarious the "Free Lotu" ban in REZNOR :nuts sig??

Dunno, as far as I'm concerned banning him was a good movement. But it's just me.

[Ssj3_Goku]

Really? I'm in a love-hate relationship with rep. I get and I lose it all the time.



Dunno, as far as I'm concerned banning him was a good movement. But it's just me.


oo belive me its not just you but 3/4 of the forums members as well.

[Lockhead]

i disabled my rep cause many people when i was entering a forum started with stupid out of topic comments like ´wow.nice rep´(my rep is awful unfortunately, people dislikes freedom speech)

[Neji]

i disabled my rep cause many people when i was entering a forum started with stupid out of topic comments like ´wow.nice rep´(my rep is awful unfortunately, people dislikes freedom speech)

:huh .

[Nico]

i disabled my rep cause many people when i was entering a forum started with stupid out of topic comments like ´wow.nice rep´(my rep is awful unfortunately, people dislikes freedom speech)
I disabled my rep because when I joined few forums, members had posts related to rep. Wow, nice rep or my rep is low, people dislikes my posts.


Is that what you are trying to say.

[Locard]

if i disable my rep, can i still give and receive rep to/from others?

[Neji]

yes you can .

[Red]

The more you look for rep the more neg ones come in.look two bars of evil for me.But what have i done or said too get it:nod ?It's reverse psychology (watch the kettle and it will not boil crap:nod ) And kids.....Dont mess with the seniors they have power.:nuts

[Excalibur]

you said it yourself:

The more you look for rep the more neg ones come in

if people know you are looking for rep....you will be considered as a repwhore and be negged because of that.

[cupnoodles]

Leaving nothing but or almost nothing but negitive reputations
..but why?
leaving nothing but pos rep is okay while neg rep is not? this is like...discrimination.
curses!! :shakefist

[Azurite]

:oh My Bad. :sweatdrop

[ANBUSoldier]

Well i dont understand, why would you want your rep up high? Does it do anything for you?

[Excalibur]

..but why?
leaving nothing but pos rep is okay while neg rep is not? this is like...discrimination.
curses!! :shakefist

I think that should be amended to nothing by negging for no reason...xD...if you have good reasons and don't flame, then there shouldn't be a problem with negging.

[Yōkai]

I wanna be rep banned

to hell with the rep system, it's annoying and unnecesary!

disable my rep, please! now!

[mew42003]

lol this happened on pkmn community and they took the rep system down

[Banned Uchiha Itachi]

once in a while an idiot +rep me and it ruins my negrep level and removes all my evil red bars. this suck mondey dodo.

[OniTasku]

once in a while an idiot +rep me and it ruins my negrep level and removes all my evil red bars. this suck mondey dodo.

Like this? :sag

[Banned Uchiha Itachi]

FUCK NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! :mad :mad :mad

[Spike]

Priceless...

[//KirA.~]

once in a while an idiot +rep me and it ruins my negrep level and removes all my evil red bars. this suck mondey dodo.

I did.

I pos repped you on this post. Member Name Change Service (http://forums.narutofan.com/showthread.php?p=8169457#post8169457)

At that time you had 3 Red Bars. You lacked hatred.

I was //Mizu

[Raiden]

This is a good move, especially for people like me. At one point, I was neg repped for absolutely no reason. Now atleast people who do it others continuously without cause will face justice.

[Casyle]

are you really 22? :oh

jk

Are you really Jesus? :oh


Sorry if this has been asked, but... Is it a no-no to revenge rep? I never do it, but I'd swear that a poster said that's against the rules, but I can't find where it says it is.

[RoseINTJ5]

Well I'm new here and I just recently found out about this rep thing (because before I thought that you gained green bars for the number of posts you had), but my first thought on the whole thing was that is was an unnessassary popularity contest (like having 1,000 friends on myspace). I mean, some people even put "rep me and I"ll rep you" in their signature! Oh, I will never escape these highschoolish popularity contests! :shakefist

[Mobius]

The reputation thing certainly is an interesting concept for a forum. Nice going. xD

Also: this is testing my rep. Secretly.

[Raiden]

Well I'm new here and I just recently found out about this rep thing (because before I thought that you gained green bars for the number of posts you had), but my first thought on the whole thing was that is was an unnessassary popularity contest (like having 1,000 friends on myspace). I mean, some people even put "rep me and I"ll rep you" in their signature! Oh, I will never escape these highschoolish popularity contests! :shakefist

That's called repwhoring, and whenever the mods see it, they can delete the message and review the persons rep history in order to see if a repseal (stopping the person from receiving or giving out reps on a temporary/permanent basis) is necessary.

[x0Uchiha0x]

so is my custom user title rep whoring by saying If you need some more reps +rep me and ill return the favor


EDIT:changed it, but still wondering

[Obito]

Lol oh ok, now I know. Can someone PM me if it is illegal to give someone rep and say please rep back even if you thought there post was good?

[clint999]

Anyone been slapped with this yet?

[Excalibur]

Lol oh ok, now I know. Can someone PM me if it is illegal to give someone rep and say please rep back even if you thought there post was good?
if their post was good...just rep them. Don't ask for a "rep back" (yes it's against the rules). If the member you repped finds a post of yours that they liked, they can rep you for that...you just can't ask for it.
Anyone been slapped with this yet?

yes :oh

[赤イヌ大将]

it says by mods Iv'e been rep banned but I do not know why :oh

[Nidaime]

I've logged on today since a long time, with a sad face.^^ I think people did bad rep me, because of my Username. It's not a real problem with me, as bad boys are cool j/k., but can mods see, if the same people gave it to me again and again?

[赤イヌ大将]

is it possible for me to be un-rep banned? or am I sealed? because apparently I've been enough of a "good boy" that I should be un-repbanned/unsealed.

[Raiden]

^I reported you post, so that the mods could eventually look into your problem :).

I think you should probably pm an smod though because it doesn't like any of them will be coming here.

[Excalibur]

basically, you got perm'd from the OBD. You got the smod form way back in the day. You should be fixed to be repped now.

[Fruits Basket Fan]

For some reason, people cannot rep me....But, I can rep them :oh......

I did not got any notifications for a rep ban nor did I do anything wrong (at least, I do not think so)....so I have no idea what is wrong :cry....

[Excalibur]

you were sig banned.

[I Я k1nj3]

Hey taxman, you look like you'd like to collect some taxes tax taxidermy

[Hikaru-Kaoru]

where do i go to complain about a girl who rep revenged me and left some very disturbing comments....i do not like to be told to kill myself.

[Spy_Smasher]

If you want to talk to the staff privately, you can use the Staff Conference Room (http://forums.narutofan.com/forumdisplay.php?f=143).

[Hikaru-Kaoru]

thank you!:amuse

[Shinobi Mugen]

They repsealed me! :arg They say it's for revengerepping but isn't that when person A negreps person B, and person C (me) who is a friend of person B then negreps person A? I mean that's a rule that makes sense, some n00b is negrepped by another n00b and then calls in some friend with a giant rep-dick to neg that guy back. That's plain wrong...

But then I just read the OP in this thread and it says revengerepping is when person A negreps person B, and person B negreps person A back. Now what the hell is that retarded bullshit? When you negrep someone you know you can expect a negrep back, everyone knows that, and it's fair. Someone negs you, you neg them, it's the way things work. Same thing with posrep. If someone posreps you the polite thing to do is to posrep them back, right? Nobody is complaining about that, so why the hell is the other way around suddenly a problem? I've been negrepped back by every single person I ever gave a negrep to, and I never complained cause it's the fair thing to do...

So please, can someone here enlighten me on this issue?

[Spy_Smasher]

If someone posreps you the polite thing to do is to posrep them back, right?Wrong.

Rep abuse constitutes the following:

...

-Repping people back just because they repped you. Also known as continuously repping back the same people for no acceptable reason other than the fact that they repped you in hopes you would return it. Not much different from the rep me and I'll rep you back sigs other than the fact it is an unspoken understanding.

Read the full rules here (http://forums.narutofan.com/announcement.php?a=116).

[Shinobi Mugen]

Wrong.

Read the full rules here (http://forums.narutofan.com/announcement.php?a=116).

Ok, so I read them now and that's just one messed up rule man... :huh I mean what happened to politeness and just kindly returning a gift of rep? Sure, I understand that people abuse the hell out of it repping back and forth, and repping people for the sole reason of expecting a rep back and all that. But that isn't what i'm talking about here. Just isolated cases where someone posreps you for a good thing you said, and you simply thank them for it by giving a posrep back. Or the reverse, when someone's an ass and gives you the negrep finger for not agreeing with something you said, are you seriously saying you can't just give him a big up yours back? Again, i'm not talking about big strings of rep back and forth, but a simply eye for an eye. And i understand it's a rule, but doesn't this completely overshoot what the rule was meant for? To combat repwhoring and these whole strings of rep back and forth?

[Spy_Smasher]

The intention of the rep system is:

Acceptable use for positive rep is to reward a good post, good thread, set (Avy/Sig), and/or good contribution (Pimps, translations, etc). Acceptable use for negative rep is to punish a bad post, thread and/or set (Avy/Sig).

You'll notice that it includes neither "thanking for rep" nor "an eye for an eye."

As for the rep rules, they are designed to enforce the above stated intentions. While the rules of this forum have evolved and will continue to evolve over time, it is believed that their current status is appropriate to current conditions. As the forum culture regarding rep changes, no doubt the rules will adapt.

[Shinobi Mugen]

So what exactly constitutes a good or a bad post? The post "Jiraiya is teh awesome!!!1!11" is not exactly a good post by any objective measure. So if i where to posrep it because i agree with it or find it funny, am I then in violation of the repping system? If that's so you might as well repseal the entire forums because that's what the majority of the rep going around here is about. A bad post is equally subjective... In my opinion you should not regulate a repping system towards objectivity when it is mainly used to reward and punish subjective matters.

[Mider T]

So what exactly constitutes a good or a bad post? The post "Jiraiya is teh awesome!!!1!11" is not exactly a good post by any objective measure. So if i where to posrep it because i agree with it or find it funny, am I then in violation of the repping system? If that's so you might as well repseal the entire forums because that's what the majority of the rep going around here is about. A bad post is equally subjective... In my opinion you should not regulate a repping system towards objectivity when it is mainly used to reward and punish subjective matters.

What's so hard to understand? If you see something you like, then rep it. If you don't want to, then don't. If you see something you don't like, then neg it.

Don't rep people back when they ask for it, nobody is nice on the internet so nobody sees it that way when you rep them back.

[Spy_Smasher]

You get to decide what is a good post or bad post. You don't get to decide whether that was a good rep or a bad rep.

[Shinobi Mugen]

I never repped back anyone because they asked for it. I'm just an awesome guy off and online!

You get to decide what is a good post or bad post. You don't get to decide whether that was a good rep or a bad rep.

That's just taking a system that's prefectly capable of self regulating (If you know someone will neg back, you know not to neg in the first place unless you can afford to because you are a well respected member who has been here a long time and is capable of judging a bad post or rep), and putting all this responsibility to regulate into the hands of moderators, diminishing the attention they can spend on true rep abuse...

[Proxy]

Isn't that something that can't be monitored constantly: returning a rep if someone recently repped you? Honestly, I understand the standard rules for giving out a rep, but if it's not something that's continuously done, then a seal for it is unwarranted. No one may want to own up to it, but returning a rep after someone has done it is about commonplace.

The only issue that arises is when it's abused i.e. asking for it in a sig, or explicitly stating, in a thread or user CP, that you'd like a rep. In the case of a "bad rep," what's to say it was warranted. Because of the differences in opinion, getting a neg is possible when it wasn't called for. Someone can make a justified statement, only to receive a neg based on another individual not agreeing. In that case, do you return a neg (revenge neg) or make an issue out of it to the mods?

It's situations like that that makes you question the whole purpose of rep in the first place. The point has been reached where it'll constantly be abused, even with repseals and repslashes.

[Spy_Smasher]

I never repped back anyone because they asked for it. I'm just an awesome guy off and online!I'm sure that's true; it's also apparently true of every member who's ever been a part a rep circle. That's what they all tell us, anyway as they rep whore each other.

That's just taking a system that's prefectly capable of self regulating ...The system is not, nor has it ever been, capable of regulating itself. In fact, until the "no revenge repping" rule was instituted (years ago, by the way, not recently) neg rep wars were commonplace. As common as rep whoring is.

[martryn]

Maybe the mods would like to check my most recent rep history. I'm getting tons of revenge reps for some reason. I'm getting tired of it.

[Spy_Smasher]

I'll have an admin look.