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Originally Posted by TheFluff
Maybe people think I'm funny or something, I dunno
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yeah you are lol
And while I don't much mind seeing the Reputation system disappear, I don't think there's much basis for the viewpoint some people hold about reputation crippling good or honest discussion. The amount of people so scared of receiving a negrep that they shy away from posting honestly is small, I'm sure, just as I doubt that the number of people that are so starved for pos reps that they'll tweak their opinion to something more 'acceptable' is more than a very small minority... this just seems to be one of those widely-held 'common truths' that isn't really true at all. 1 out of 100 people might've had their posting habits influenced by reputation, but otherwise I doubt anything much ever resulted from it aside from the occasional 'Thank you' for pos reps or bitchfits for negative ones.