Remove negative rep? Remove all rep?

Why? This is an added incentive to keep people coming back and to attract new members. Maybe it's not going to make that much of a difference, but at least it's something?

How is it an incentive to come back? It doesn't do anything. It serves no purpose other than e-peen enlargement.

Of course, the same could be said about post count, but my post count is not determined by what some retard thinks of me.

just let it be

How is it an incentive to come back? It doesn't do anything. It serves no purpose other than e-peen enlargement. Of course, the same could be said about post count, but my post count is not determined by what some retard thinks of me.

If there were more people to look up to, more people that posted thought provoking dialogue, rather than accusations and intimidations people would be more likely to want to get their two cents in. This is why discussions outside of the chatterbox and flame forum should be held to the rules and emptied of a good portion of the post disencouraging content.

I could not tell you how many times I have read an interesting opening post and by the time I filtered through all the spam, shit talk and other bullshit, I didn't care to add my thoughts to such intellectually devoid conversations.

If there were more people to look up to, more people that posted thought provoking dialogue, rather than accusations and intimidations people would be more likely to want to get their two cents in. This is why discussions outside of the chatterbox and flame forum should be held to the rules and emptied of a good portion of the post disencouraging content. I could not tell you how many times I have read an interesting opening post and by the time I filtered through all the spam, shit talk and other bullshit, I didn't care to add my thoughts to such intellectually devoid conversations.

I agree. And if we had a shop where Rep was factored in, and people actually CARED about whether or not they've got good rep, you could effectively use it to keep people in line.

Right now, though, anyone with half a brain shouldn't give a shit whether they get negative or positive rep, because it doesn't do anything to them.

Well the way I see it. It doesn't do anything to them because of the immature way some people use it. Being that I want it to be useful I refuse to abuse it.


... If only everyone wanted it to help.

Making all rep public and having it be somewhat moderated would help that. I still think it needs to have some sort of reward and punishment, though. Really, if it doesn't, it's just a number. You guys could negatively rep me all you want right now and I really wouldn't care.

The reward is positive rep, the punishment is negative rep.

But neither of them do anything. That's my point. It's not a very effective reward/punishment if it doesn't do anything. If having higher rep did something for you, people would care more about getting good rep. Currently, it does nothing, so I honestly couldn't care less.