10-24-2015, 03:23 PM
I remember the last negative rep I received negative rep at the old boards. It was from ishouldbegm. I thought it was hilarious.
Negative rep - criticism from someone a person doesn't even really know on an anonymous message board - is not something to get worked up over. If someone is going to get butthurt over negative rep, odds are pretty good that action wasn't truly prompted by the negative rep. That's just how they are. They were inevitably going to get butthurt over something in this forum.
That said, when someone does show that vulnerability, there is sometimes a tendency for a group of members to target that individual (*cough* RRR *cough*). It effectively becomes a form of bullying. Again, though, this can very easily happen without negative rep as well.
Ultimately, I don't think implementing negative rep changes much. It really only give members just one more way to privately express what they already express publicly.
Negative rep - criticism from someone a person doesn't even really know on an anonymous message board - is not something to get worked up over. If someone is going to get butthurt over negative rep, odds are pretty good that action wasn't truly prompted by the negative rep. That's just how they are. They were inevitably going to get butthurt over something in this forum.
That said, when someone does show that vulnerability, there is sometimes a tendency for a group of members to target that individual (*cough* RRR *cough*). It effectively becomes a form of bullying. Again, though, this can very easily happen without negative rep as well.
Ultimately, I don't think implementing negative rep changes much. It really only give members just one more way to privately express what they already express publicly.
