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Originally Posted by KholdStare
I change my opinion on this matter. If anonymity is removed, then people would retaliate with neg reps. While this may not discourage further use of neg reps, it would lower the rep of the person throwing around neg reps, which means their rep power will eventually be significantly reduced. And pretty soon, their neg reps won't count anymore. This is a good alternative to disabling neg rep altogether, since it does the exact same thing.
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That's like saying that if you insult someone, the person that was insulted would insult back. If you don't want to be negative-repped back, you shouldn't neg-rep that person in the first place. It's a sign of respect.
What are the side-effects of disabling reputation al-together anyways? A lot of forums other than this one do it, so I don't see a lot of things wrong with it.