This also happens to me all the time when I post.

Maybe it's because you're rebel and freethinker?

Edit: -6 rep with this post. Nice. My karma (rep) might get balanced after all.

Btw, don't forget this thread:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/throw_it_to_the_coals_activisionblizzard_sued_by_the_state_of_california

I think it was the first one to have all low rated posts.

Someone at GOG could likely figure it out easily, i'm guessing.....just look for any accounts with no paid games which just rate posts and do little to nothing else. Then check if those accounts are low rating entire swaths of posts in certain threads or those written by certain users, and mod as needed.....rinse and repeat.


-Only a few of us, like you/me/some others who get low rated near constantly.....the others seem to just get low rated if they post in topics the low raters dislike.



-Imo it is somewhat, and it's ironic: some of the low raters (afaik) want the forum to be run/posted to a certain way(think of the ratings as prods to errant cattle, with them as the farmers and us as the cattle) to try and make it "better"......thing is, their ratings are likely driving some to post less or not at all, thus likely making the forums worse.

They would do well to remember the old saying about the road to hell and what it is constructed of, I think.


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It's actually 5 rep down from "baseline"(a post that's fresh and normal rated) to go low, and 5 up from that same baseline to go high. If a post has just gone low it would then take 5 upvotes to go normal and 5 more to then go high(more upvotes would be needed for posts truly "buried" with low ratings).

Some people thought (imo wrongly) that you were a spammer or bot when you signed up, due to how you posted. I am guessing that some are unable to admit being wrong, and thus low rate you to not have to admit being wrong about you(also the low raters probably low rate you as well).

Not much of an idea really. There may be some truth to a very higher REP member having more REP vote power or maybe it is based on length of membership, who knows.

There is at least one thread (topic) here in the forum, that explains a bit about how the REP system works, but it doesn't cover much, and not entirely sure how accurate it is either, because it wasn't by a MOD. REPs would be a feature of the forum software, which seems to differ from site to site, which might be due to tweaking by MODS. I'm not even sure what forum software has been used here at GOG. It looks similar, the basics, to what IndieGala use and a few others.

I was at 697 REP before I first posted in this topic, and have been going backwards since then, as I am at 693 now, and will no doubt be reduced again after this post. But who cares, it's all rather silly.

Clearly if you cared about your REP you would not risk posting here.

P.S. LOL. A bit confusing replying to you now you have changed your name to - §pec†re

P.S.S. Now my REP has gone up 1 to 694, seems to do that for my first post of the day.

Then if everyone in the thread upvoted all the posts it would negate the low rating assuming you get more than 1 upvote per day.

1 rep per day and I think you get some for buying games.

Theres a load of ultracrepidarian misinformation, guessing and tinfoil hat-shit going on in this thread.

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Many years ago a forum user started a thread to TEST rep (of which i was a subject). The results were as follows.

It only takes two to three downvotes to "low rate" a post.
There is NO limit to how much rep you can lose per day.
Rep gain IS limited by the five maximum.
Equal upvotes to downvotes does NOT remove the "low rated".
User rep when rating has NO effect.

GOG staff then (and more recently) have NO idea how rep works in regards to the site. This is why it cannot be fixed. It is tied to spam guards, question answers (which support do rely on) and probably a few other things.
Also, they had / probably still have no interest in fixing things - BECAUSE nobody understands whats under the hood!

Please take your tinfoil hats off and mail them to the nearest user that has frequently been caught abusing alts for rep or their nearest 4chan counterpart.

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And no, im not gonna link the thread so this shit can be further abused by additional numpties!

Edit: and yeah, and THEN theres the script somebody with a brain released (not me) to combat rep abuse, that was then turned for the opposite and they no longer have the code.
I wont name them, but they meant well.

Edit2: and i forgot... when the forum has gone down (which has happened more than once) rep actually turns off for a time - so its entirely possible for it to be permenantly negated... but support relies to a degree on "answers". whole place is a fuggin deathtrap!

The "problem"** with that plan is that the troll raters likely have many alt accounts they rate with.....making it hard to negate them.
(**I say "problem" above because rep is meaningless and it's not really that much of an actual problem....it's more a sad joke with the raters being the punchline)

Look at this thread (first post). New user has only -1 rep but their post is "low rated".

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/cyberp

I tell you, I have experienced it several times myself.

No one has claimed it is the schemes of the Inebriati. If that was genuinely the case, we should all go and collect a billion gog accounts and have our 50 cent armies engage in rep wars.

Official response: “use our optional client galaxy”

Unofficial response: “FCK off, we don’t want your custom, those on steam using Reddit and social media are far more important than you old gits who got us to where we are now, and we want the cool kids who like microtransactions”.

My mistake: I meant it takes 5 down votes(not 5 rep) from users to make a post drop to low, which causes the poster of said post to lose 1 rep.

-6 rep per day sounds about right.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/rep_6_per_day/page1

I should also mention that I dislike imbeciles who doesn't understand how vaccines work. Vaccines are effectively viruses a.k.a. infectious diseases. So getting yourself vaxxed is like having someone snease or cough on you. And yes, you can still get sick, infected and transmit that to others even if you do get yourself vaxxed. Only difference is that you get a dose of poison alongside with that injection which you would avoid by just being infected by traditional means.

I should also mention that wearing a mask or a condom doesn't necessarily protect you nor your loved ones from infection.

Infections happen. Disease happen. There are effective ways how to protect yourself but those options are not very popular. So instead of whining about other people those whiners should prop up their own immune system. Because strong immune system is what really protects you but it's not something big pharma could market or sell to you.