Is someone disliking my posts on purpose??

See? 2 positives!!

Wow, reading this was almost like watching a wounded person slowly bleed out. Painful to watch, but you just can't look away. Anyhoo...back to the forums!

Well, negative votes is a way for other users to express, other than saying it directly, that your post is shit.

I sometimes can't be bothered to actually reply and say "You're shit. Your post is shit.", and also because I'm not contributing in the topic, therefore I just neg-rep them.

Meanwhile OP...

So you're saying it would be better if everyone had to post about whether or not they disagree with someone calling him a fucktard and increasing the chances of a flame war breaking out? Because that's exactly what would happen when a retard comes in here acting a fool. People are going to feel the need to express their distaste and the user being attacked would come under an even worse assault if there wasn't a simple system like down voting in place. it's better to have them click a button than call him a moronic fucktard in a post.

Congratulations on winning the "Retarded Idea of the Week" award by the way.

Wow, are you too stupid to realize that I argue that saying it directly acomplishes nothing? If the person wrote a shit post and believes in shitty ideas, they won't change their mind with a negative vote... Either you find a way to prove that an anonymous negative vote turns idiots into geniuses or your post is void. Maybe you should start replying more often, you clearly missed the point on this one.



No, you are using a false dichotomy. Nothing in my post says it's either complete silence or a constant stream of comments. It is perfecty acceptable to try to reason with someone and give up when you see it is pointless. What doesn't seem reasonable to me is to disagree or dislike someone and hide behind, I keep saying this, an anonymous negative post. I get tons of negative votes, I'm getting them down and couldn't care less because they don't make me change my mind. I might be completely wrong but unless someone knows why and tells me, all I can assume is that people here are idiots who don't like to be proven wrong or maybe they don't even like to think.

I can't speak for others, but I don't negrep idiots because they might change their ways if they get enough of it.
It's my way of saying "Your post is bad, and you should feel bad"
Also, you completely miseed what he meant with his post.
Would you rather have shitton of users flame a user with short posts about how they should get the hell out, or have a simple button indicating how said user's post is shit ?
You can just turn down rep notifications if your jimmies were that rustled.
They mean shit anyways.

No, you're the one who missed the point. Again... After I explained it... Twice...

I prefer idiots anywhere to be educated by people who are not idiots. If I see you say something wrong about something I am good at, I'll try to correct you and I hope people do the same when I am being an idiot.

A negative post shows nothing so I want people to try to reason with me and tell me what's wrong with my views and explain why. It is only through dialogue that we teach each other. Also, the negative vote shows nothing about the original post. I think my views are perfectly defensible which is what I am doing. If they are, then I don't think they deserve the votes. If people don't like it, that's their business but it doesn't prove anything wrong.

Hide behind? I don't think people cares about the anonymity regarding reps, or do you just want to know -who- to argue against for receiving down-votes now? I think people are just either lazy or doesn't bother to argue with most retards because it's a huge waste of time for most of them.

Like, there are many others disagreeing with you and are down-voting you for it, because they can, because they want to, because they think you're dumb, or because you complain and openly still take reputation seriously.

There's no actual need for them to justify their action, nor do they see the reason to do so. You can figure out - like an intelligent adult or whatever-the-fuck-you-think-you-are - what you wrote wrong. Not everyone is going to be willing to spoon-feed the details of how shitty your posts actually are.

Some users can't be reasoned with.[size=1]like you[/h]
Take a break from the internet, it's obviously not for you.

I don't get your point. Doesn't seem like it to me.

If they don't change their mind with a negative vote, they shouldn't mind when people give them that because of their shit post. The purpose of negative reputation is because their post/themselves is a bad post/user. And it's a matter of opinion.




No one here says that negative reps would make a better user. I certainly didn't say that, nor Pyre, or everyone that replied here. I thought Pyre and I made it clear of what the purpose of negative reputation is.

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Urgh, I don't wanna be told by someone who has less postcounts than I do.

I don't know, I don't see any point in your earlier post, nor I sense any implications.

EDIT:Now I know where you're coming from, and what you meant.
No, not everyone can be bothered saying "Get the fuck out of IB" or "You're shit because your opinion has flaws in them". If it's worth arguing, yes, like this one for example. There are things that aren't. Not everything should be argued for. I don't wanna argue with people just because they think Vanilla is better than Chocolate NTR, so therefore sometimes I just downvote them. It's a matter of opinion.

Why
Do you care about
-rep

inb4 SD tier

He even changed his avatar.

This whole thread turned into a pointless discussion.

It is simple. Because you post things like this.

I'm pretty sure I can take what you have to "dish" out. But from this post it doesn't seem like you haven't made a valid point. Seriously, you're claiming that someone is a victim of disapproval if they get negative reps or that people.



If the point was to show disapproval or dislike, it accomplishes that. Yes, it literally is that simple, and your refusal to acknowledge that won't that fact.





It's not impossible for a person to realize that they might have made a mistake or said something someone else disapproves of. This generally depends on the person being -neg rep'd.
If your argument is that there are better ways to achieve a nonspecific goal, then yeah that's true.




Why does it matter if it doesn't change your mind?
Also why do you claim not to care yet still rant about their existence



Having an ambiguous meaning and being able to be interpreted in several ways doesn't mean it shows nothing.



They don't have to, Mr.Egomaniac.



Again, you said you didn't care yet you think people aren't allowed to simply disagree? Whether you find any value in their disapproval is irrelevant to whatever the specific user intended to do and what resulted in it.

I should have done something like this a long time ago