Personally I've only neg repped one time, and it was a spammer, who wanted to advertise his site and nothing else.
It should be used with care, but there are situations where it can be done. Theoreticly I could neg rep someone for chatting for example. But that wouldn't happen before both one and two warnings were issued, as a last way to remind people of the rules. Totally useless posts, like saying "yes" when it's obvious you're doing it only for the post count could be neg repped too. But as most people here are regular members and quite frequent posters one can tolerate this behaviour in many cases, because one know that this is an isolated occurrence from the person in question. These are the situations I can imagine myself giving neg. reps.
But as you say, bilbo_baggins, neg repping shouldn't be done based on the content, unless it violates the rules of the forum. Positive repping on the other hand, that can be based on content. A great contribution is often one that open one's eyes for a certain fact, angle or way of interpret something.
I've been lucky so far when it comes to neg reps. I haven't found anyone misusing the system.
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But overall there are not many truly bad writers on the Downs, so neg repping doesn't happen except by those who don't know how to use it.
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No, there are certainly not many bad writers here and my believe is that most neg. reps goes to temporary members which don't use the forum as intended. But that it's mainly people who don't know how to use the system that is neg repping I dont believe. Those who don't know how to use the system has probably not been here for long and don't have much weight when it comes to repping anyway.
Now I hope i won't get my first neg rep for this quite useless and oversized posting of known facts and old information
Oh, and congratulations Valesse! What a rocket career you have! What's the secret?
EDIT: 200! Yay!