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Originally posted by CookieRevised
PS: L. Coyote, I picked your post to reply to and to make my thought clear for general purpose for everybody to read. So I hope others read it as if it is replied to them and that you don't feel that you're the only one who I 'attack'... The next parts are to be read as a response to everybody (your post was simply usefull to be taken for the means of something to reply to)
Likewise, Sunshine and Cookie. 
(Minus the "attack" part, I don't attack, even if my post sounds angry. 
I'm just chatting about forum politics.)
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Originally posted by Sunshine
Because i wanted to discuss the whole behaviour and not just the neg repping.
Oh, but you linked to the reputation page of a member! How could it not be about neg repping, if not?
That's why everyone jumped in that wagon, after all.
Don't get me wrong, it really annoys me when people gang up on newbies.
Yes, this member did nothing bad. Yes, people today are negging for anything. But, if he's only broken a rule (understandable), then the more reason to stick around and learn from the community. If he wants to.
But I'm one who thinks that all these rants focusing on the reputations of new members are the reason why other members actually neg-rep new members. It's putting so much importance in it, that people automatically rep members.
That, and the mistaken idea that the rep system is there for personal reasons or for personal opinions...
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Because something needs to be done....
The rep system is not the thing which is/should be discussed here, it is our behaviour what is/should be discussed. But again, it is/was deviated towards the rep system...
I agree that something needs to be done, that it involves people and not the rep system.
However, the rep system is always being brought up in these threads. Why? And I'm not the one who does it, I just follow this trail, as an example of what people do.
Why do people bring it up? Why do they think it's the problem?
Because, like I said before, I think these threads that are supposedly not about the rep system are based on the rep system. Even you acknowledge this. It's giving it too much importance. It's linking community behavior to the reputation system. So people will never learn to discern from neither.
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Originally posted by Sunshine
Yes i did pm that member, told him i understand his confusion as to where a thread should go etc and not to take notice of the negs given. I also asked him to delete his threads that were still unanswered at that point (back then just one got an answer). Those threads were gone later on, i can't see wether he did that himself or if a mod/admin did.
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Originally posted by Sunshine
I did not take the easy path at all...
No, you didn't take the easy path. And I'm glad you're not exactly like the countless of other ranters. At least you did something AND ranted.
Some don't take the trouble.
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