quote:
Originally posted by L. Coyote
quote:
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.
It is not about only giving reputations, it is about the regulars' behaviour as a whole, of which the neg rep giving for that guy is only a clear example of how regulars behave and threat others lately and don't care for order and don't think before doing/saying something.
quote:
Originally posted by L. Coyote
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.
As you said futher in your post, they are not focussed on the reps at all.
As I said somewhere earlier in this thread: these rants tend to deviate to the reputation system and totally go past the main issue, because others are focussing on it, not the 'rant' starters...
And that is also one of the issues: people gang up, and above all don't think further what the consequences might be or if it is right or wrong before doing something, etc (and I'm not talking about the new members here, for those who still might not get it)...
quote:
Originally posted by L. Coyote
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 they don't see that the problem is themselfs
quote:
Originally posted by L. Coyote
Because, like I said before, I think these threads that are supposedly not about the rep system are based on the rep system.
Not at all. They are totally based upon the behaviour of people. Read some of the previous rants, it will make it clear. They always started because some stupid/immature/not-thinking-thru behaviour...
The abusing of rep system is only a small, but a clear, example...
quote:
Originally posted by L. Coyote
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.
Even if the rep system wasn't there, the behaviour and acting of people would still be the same. And that is the whole issue which some people don't understand...
The rep system shouldn't be discussed, it is fine as it is. It is the acting and general attitude which need to be discussed...
/ 
