Re: The Reputation Hilarity/Insanity thread
I'll say this publicly to show my fairly neutral thoughts, despite clearly being in the corner of favored amongst the regulars and crucified amongst the MnF'ers.
We've had problems in the past with sub communities rep-cycling the shit out of each other every few minutes until they dominated the board in a very short time. These communities actually had to be banned because of copyright problems with what they were following, not so unlike some threatening issues we've had with the legality of MnF. And if the MnF community sticks within itself so much (which it does, since the users hardly leave the subforum, let alone the H section altogether) then I see no reason for you guys to have the reputation system. If it could be disabled altogether for the group, I'd do it. Having been negrepped en masse by the community, I can tell you that the less rep power you guys have, the better, even if that means you were all in the negative. Personally, after all my dealings, I have no idea why we've chosen to be so lenient and even allow it's existence in the forum and would rather not see an MnF section at all, but since I've been fine ignoring it, I think removing your power to affect the other parts of the forum that you clearly don't care about is a good compromise.
However, I'd rather not see that as anything other than preventative of future problems. I'd hate for it to be at the cost of negativity in the rep comments or provocation in the thread. I don't think people need to be mocked or insulted and I think as long as your rep power stayed negative, there wouldn't be a problem, so there isn't much need to continuously tank all MnF users into the red oblivion. And as I've stated before, if there is one thing that I think is a clear abuse of the anonymous rep system, it's signing it off as other users to provide even MORE provocation between users who aren't even involved. That is something I don't tolerate and would ban people for immediately, and it's something I HAVE already had peopled banned for.
If the point of this movement is to prevent them from having some modicum of power when they lash out as childishly as they do, then shouldn't we just leave it at taking away their power, not lashing out at them childishly first? As far as I'm concerned, having actually kept an eye on MnF from it's first thread, self-collapse is inevitable anyway, I just don't want to deal with red squares bitching at anyone in their CP in the meantime between two groups who don't see each other and would rather not see each other, save for maybe 2 users who actually have posted in both sections regularly.