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Originally Posted by ahelo
This. Most of the neg reps I get (is it okay to talk about this?) is because I stated an opinion that's largely negative and no one wants to hear anything negative. It's like the forums is asking everyone to put every opinion nicely and being harsh even though you aren't trolling is bad. If the whole point of the rep system is to promote a more qualitative post, then isn't the purpose defeated when people just want to hear happy opinions?
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Exactly. Rep may just be a "game," but there's little doubt that it is keeping some people from reaching their true posting potential. I disabled reputation so I wouldn't have to worry much about that anymore. When you consider the fact that many online communities don't use reputation at all, you miss it less.