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Originally posted by Omar
In my opinion, members screwing up is an item for mods and admin to deal with, not the members.
Exactly.
Which is why people need to
report the invalid reputations to us so we can take action against the user - not create threads which bitch and moan about the whole community.
Members who are hassling new members need to be bought to our attention: contact any of the moderators or admins here and we'll look in to it.
The majority of those giving invalid reputations could care less about what an Elite member has to say or any other member regarding it, and that isn't because they haven't read it - it's because they don't care what other people think.
There are clear divisions and groups of people in this forum like that - they have each other on their WLM contact lists, they work on websites together etc. That group sticks together and cares what their group thinks of them - so they'll disregard threads like this.
The only way effective action can be taken place is that you
report the reputations to an Administrator where we can make it clear to the users that their actions won't be tolerated: their accounts banned, reputation powers disabled etc.
Bitching and moaning in a thread won't solve anything because as I said, most people could care less about it.
Any reputations people feel are invalid (for yourself or any other user), send me a PM, I'll investigate and remove it as well as keep a list of repeat offenders who I will ban or remove their reputation abilities.
As for the previous discussion of the member who registered here and then decided to spam, it's only normal that people don't have a high opinion of them and negative rep them. Everybody forms opinions of people - if they admit it or not. People form opinions at face value too, deny it or not.
If a member however posts inappropriate comments such as abuse etc. then those aren't considered valid reasons and need to be reported to us however general opinions, as I mentioned above, toward a new member or not should still be valid.
