Fine. Don't answer me Clint...lol
But seriously..once you have gotten enough positive rep to view everything on the site...rep IMHO kinda becomes sorta not such a big deal anymore. Yeah it's real nice to be able to show appreciation or disapproval to the other posters, but it isn't exactly a life or death situation, is it?
I mean it doesn't give you a bigger woody, doesn't make your coconuts bigger, and it won't get you any nooky. Nor can you trade it for cash to go get a good buzz on. So don't soil yourself if you get neg'ed. Learn from it and move on - I did.
And it's relatively easy to avoid a neg rep when you disagree with someone here if you state your opinion calmly, politely, respectfully, and factually. If you make a mistake, man up and get on with your day. No one likes to be called names, cursed at, or ridiculed. And if you think you are being personally attacked or harassed by anyone here for no reason, tell the staff and let them deal with it. That's why they are here.
Limits on rep's have to be set to prevent abuse. There is a lot of members here, and that's just what you have to do when you deal with the general public on a public forum. You have to restrict the many to controll a few. Maybe I'm getting old, but IMHO I just feel like this is a lot of fuss being made about a little trivial matter...lol
This all reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from an old redneck comedian I met a long time ago named Ollie Joe Prater:
"The optimist will always argue that the glass is half full, the pessimist will always argue that the glass is half empty. All I wanna know is which one of those two sonabitches has been drinking my damn beer."
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