Negative reputation?

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Considering the aforementioned reasons for negative rep and troll points, here is my reason against the proposition:

Imagine a negative rep or troll point system in place at AF. Now imagine members who don't break the rules, yet endeavor to accumulate negative rep points. Can you possibly imagine the frequency of bullshit grenades tossed into conversation for the sole purpose of earning negative rep?

I envision that I'd have quite a number of 'troll points' simply for disagreeing with a large number of people here, even if I am agreeing with them at the same time.

Honestly, this system seems like an unnecessarily cruel way to discover which of our members are blind... but due to number of visually impaired forumgoers: it would end up being incredibly unwieldy.

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For me, it's usually enough that those deserving negative rep and neg kudos are recognised as such by their not attracting positive rep/kudos. If that makes sense outside my peculiar brain.

They are not charismatic, therefore they are annoying, boring, or otherwise unpleasant enough to have not accumulated much reputation.

Were it otherwise, they would be drowning in positive rep (you'll note that every one of the top-rated members is charismatic to a significant degree?)