Add to rep with a disagreement: does it produce "negative rep?"

**John Dias** · 9th-December-2008

I have a question about the Rep points feature. For a given post by a user, if you click on the icon of the scales, you can add to a person's rep points by agreeing with their post. But there's also an option to express your disagreement with that post. My question is, does indicating disagreement effectively reduce the other user's rep points? Or indicating disagreement just an academic point, having no net effect on the other user's overall rep points? Moreover, could I be augmenting someone's rep points even as I express disagreement with one of their posts?

**redkal** · 9th-December-2008

Assuming here as I don't run this forum, but the way it works on most vBulletin setups is when you 'agree' you add to their rep, when you 'disagree' you lower their rep. There are limits as to how much you can plus or minus rep one person - e.g. if you neg-rep someone you can't do it again until repping someone else. You also can't neg rep someone when you yourself are in neg rep. I have found this feature to be useful as it is typically easy to figure out who the trolls/asshats are.

**Incognito** · 10th-December-2008

Quote from Billy

I think disagreements should be voiced on the thread in the form of a response.. Only Comments that are inappropriate should get negative reps, imo. What good is a neg rep when they can turn and hit you right back?

I got a neg for saying that they are trying to take our guns in America but it isn't likely to happen.
I am 100% pro-gun ownership..
Now how did that deserve a negative when they didn't bother to respond to the post I made?

It irratates me that the most annoying people who come here stirring trouble get close to a million points and many good guys receive few.

Oh well. I think the rep system has it's faults, but matters little either way in the end.

Oh well...at least you spread the joy around. You neg repped me for supposedly defending criminal behavior. (Which I never did!) And I didn't choose to neg rep you back for that, but probably should have.

**themanonthestreet** · 10th-December-2008

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

No men here loves me! WHAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

TMOTS

**Marx** · 10th-December-2008

John, yes, you've about summed it up.

**Incognito** · 10th-December-2008

Quote from themanonthestreet

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

No men here loves me! WHAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

TMOTS

Yes I'll be crying myself to sleep tonight.

**Incognito** · 10th-December-2008

TMOTS,

Do you want to talk about the rep system? I remember a time when you used your administrative powers and went in and erased all of my rep points. No explanation to me was given, nor an apology. In fact, you never set this straight yourself, Marx had to do it. I'm tired of your harassment. I'm tired of your insults. To me, these are personal attacks and the only reason you're getting away with them is because you are an administrator.

**Percy** · 10th-December-2008

I am baffled by rep points.

I appreciate people giving me a rep kudos and like to look from time to time to see just what it was I said that gained the rep.

But at the top of the listing are the toatal rep points. I seem to have 102,443,226 points. One hundred and two and a half MILLION !!

Yet on the threads it says 103,900.

This is peanuts compared to JD's 197,163 and Tera's 953,604.

There was a rep point meltdown a while back and everything got buggered up. (Whoops, profanity ! Sod it.) I don't see what the relationship is anymore.

**Incognito** · 10th-December-2008

Quote from Percy

I am baffled by rep points.

I appreciate people giving me a rep kudos and like to look from time to time to see just what it was I said that gained the rep.

But at the top of the listing are the toatal rep points. I seem to have 102,443,226 points. One hundred and two and a half MILLION !!

Yet on the threads it says 103,900.

This is peanuts compared to JD's 197,163 and Tera's 953,604.

There was a rep point meltdown a while back and everything got buggered up. (Whoops, profanity ! Sod it.) I don't see what the relationship is anymore.

It is odd...I agree...the numbers don't match exactly with mine, either. Don't know why that is.

Percy, for what it's worth you deserve a lot more rep points than you currently have. :)

**Marx** · 10th-December-2008

Rep "power" and rep "points" are two different things, relative to one another. The amount of 'power' you have dicates how many 'points' you can give others.

**Marx** · 10th-December-2008

'bugger' is to take someone up the ass.

**Marx** · 10th-December-2008

'bugger' can be taking an animal up the ass too, not just humans.

**Celtic Druid** · 10th-December-2008

Quote from Percy

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There was a rep point meltdown a while back and everything got buggered up.

Rightly or wrongly, a number of members inflated rep points can be directly traced back to the period when bobx was attempting to undertake a insurrection or create his own autonomy within the forum.

To give the appearance of having more consensus and support than he actually had, his eager little minions 'embarked upon a orgy of showering one another' with rep for just about anything. I particularly noted how some of this little group squealed in delight how they remarked they were receiving 50,000 to 100,000+ points per rep from certain members.

The legacy of this period can be directly attributed to certain members overly inflated rep points. Of course, no matter how you devise the rep system it's always going to prove contentious, divisive, and open to abuse to some degree.

**Incognito** · 10th-December-2008

Quote from Celtic Druid

Rightly or wrongly, a number of members inflated rep points can be directly traced back to the period when bobx was attempting to undertake a insurrection or create his own autonomy within the forum.

To give the appearance of having more consensus and support than he actually had, his eager little minions 'embarked upon a orgy of showering one another' with rep for just about anything. I particularly noted how some of this little group squealed in delight how they remarked they were receiving 50,000 to 100,000+ points per rep from certain members.

The legacy of this period can be directly attributed to certain members overly inflated rep points. Of course, no matter how you devise the rep system it's always going to prove contentious, divisive, and open to abuse to some degree.

I remember that...Bob also attacked certain people's accounts with barrages of negative reps one right after another... depending on who's "side" he thought you were on, you'd either get a lot of points from him or have a lot taken away. He certainly didn't like me much...lol

**Incognito** · 10th-December-2008

...And by "side" I mean whether or not you were in agreement with most of his posts, or not.

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