Reputations

[The Only Real Estel]

Posted by Meela:

I'm sure I don't deserve such status

Do any of us deserve our status, in our own opinions at least? I think rep titles are quite a bit like pictures. Someone might tell us that our picture looks great, but we'd never believe it; and we'd never believe that we've "earned" our rep titles/status either, no matter how often people try to tell us that we have.

So I won't waste time by saying that I think, beyond a shadow of a doubt, you've earned your status/title, Meela.

[Sleepy Ranger]

Alright, now whose the slimeball that gave me a negative rep with this tagline-

Go random neg rep points!

It was unfair and uncalled for. I deserve an apology

[Morsul the Dark]

Im sorry...no actually it wasnt me io say go positive rep points! whoever did that was kind of immature

[Gurthang]

Originally Posted by Sleepy Ranger

Alright, now whose the slimeball that gave me a negative rep with this tagline-

Go random neg rep points!

It was unfair and uncalled for. I deserve an apology

Sleepy, I feel bad for you that you got that rep, but please refrain from lashing out. The above post could very well earn you another negative(not from me) because it's pretty offensive in itself. Though it may have been unfair and uncalled for, responding in such a way is probably not the best thing to do.

In your situation, I'd look to see if there was maybe a real reason you recieved the rep you got.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

What is strange is that it must be someone with more than 50 posts to actually make a dent on your rep and appear red. There treachery afoot! To the Barrow cave!

I hope it does not get to the point where negative reps have to be reviewed by a moderator before being sent to stop this kind of thing. But if it gets out of hand, then perhaps that would be something we would have to conceder.

[Sleepy Ranger]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

What is strange is that it must be someone with more than 50 posts to actually make a dent on your rep and appear red. There treachery afoot! To the Barrow cave!

I lost about 20 points if that helps.

[Kath]

I lost about 20 points if that helps.

That means it was a pretty high up Downer! I mean, I remember the phantom saying he'd like to randomly neg rep people. but I didn't think he'd actually do it! Or anyone for that matter.

[mormegil]

Originally Posted by Kath

That means it was a pretty high up Downer! I mean, I remember the phantom saying he'd like to randomly neg rep people. but I didn't think he'd actually do it! Or anyone for that matter.

No the phantom only joked about that and he doesn't actually do it.

I support the use of negative rep when it is justified but I do not hold with the use of negative random rep.

[Sleepy Ranger]

Originally Posted by Gurthang

Sleepy, I feel bad for you that you got that rep, but please refrain from lashing out. The above post could very well earn you another negative(not from me) because it's pretty offensive in itself. Though it may have been unfair and uncalled for, responding in such a way is probably not the best thing to do.

In your situation, I'd look to see if there was maybe a real reason you recieved the rep you got.

Meh, yea I know but come on didn't anyone find the word slimeball even slightly amusing? Anyway, I wouldn't have done it if there was a real reason which there wasn't.

Heres the post.
Heres what was written-
Go random-negative-reps!

And on another note I got a positive rep from Heren on that post, so the only real reason was randomosity. And even though thanks to the kindness of Morsul and Hookbill I got the points back I'd still like an apology. But I doubt the person who did will come front so I suppose we should let the matter drop unless it happens again.

[Glirdan]

Ouch Sleepy!! That's the strangest thing I've I've seen.

On a happier note, I'd like to say thanks to Gurth and TORE for getting me up onto cold Taniquetil. Thanks to everyone else who's repped me as well.

[Glirdan]

I just recieved a neg rep with this comment for my recent Crazy Captions post:

For the overuse of both Monty Python and the horrible Mapquest jokes.

Obviously someone doesn't have a sense of humour. People really don't know how much of a pain MapQuest is, even when you're just fooling around with it.

[The Only Real Estel]

For the overuse of both Monty Python and the horrible Mapquest jokes.

Sounds to me like someone's rephrasing of "Random Neg Rep." Obviously everyone knows that Monty Python is used a lot, but it's nearly impossible to overuse it. And the Mapquest captions are right up there with the Gandalf uncloaking ones, they have to be done at least once per caption.

On a happier note, your welcome Glirdan (& Rune, belatedly). But that's about all I'm going to say because I don't want to get to personal in the open forums.