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Is is possible for you to reduce the amount of negative rep I can give from 30 to something more reasonable, say 10? I'd like to occasionally give negative rep but I don't want to completely destroy the member. Maybe there should be a maximum negative rep that can be given.
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I second the motion. If I give a newbie -rep, he immediately has a rep-block as overall status.
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I don't see the difference between neg repping someone or posting a constructive comment in the forums.

Is this just for newbies not using code tags or something?
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>>Is this just for newbies not using code tags or something?
That is one reason, but not the only reason.
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I think that would be a great idea too Ancient Dragon. Maybe we could have an option to neg rep a member UPTO our maximum neg rep amount? I don't think I have ever neg repped anyone actually!
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Maybe we could have an option to neg rep a member UPTO our maximum neg rep amount? I don't think I have ever neg repped anyone actually!
I had asked for this years ago, I believe: essentially the DevShed approach of choosing the amount of both positive and negative rep. I'd found even zero-rep agrees and disagrees to be useful.
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I had asked for this years ago, I believe: essentially the DevShed approach of choosing the amount of both positive and negative rep. I'd found even zero-rep agrees and disagrees to be useful.
I think this is a good idea. For example:

Let's say you joined a few years ago and got rep from 10 people back in the day. That would've resulted in 1 block or 100 points.
If you join today and get rep from the same 10 people, this will result in 2-3 blocks (200-300 points), because their rep-power has increased drastically.

So people who joined; took a break for a few years, and then restarted posting, now have a relative small rep, although they got the same amount of people repping them as someone who joined a month ago and now has a monster-reppower. The result is that the nice green ocks, next to your name, say very little about how helpfull you actually are.
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But it does say that people that have clout like what you say...
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It all depends on your REP POWER,the higher it is THE MORE YOU WILL AFFECT THE USER...

On one site my rep power is SKY HIGH (249713) and if i give rep,they either get ALL GREEN or ALL RED!! (10 dots) -- So i gotta be very carefull on that site giving neg rep cause i cant do it w/o really hurting someone..
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What are these up/down buttons actually doing? i.e. if I press the up button - does my whole 6 points of rep power "rep" that poster?
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