darthspudius: Not if we kick up enough of a stinker

EBToriginal: You realize how goofy you look right? You had a melt down over a non issue now you have to either keep on full boar or back down and you feel like if you back down it means anything beyond you finally realized the whole thing is a colossal waste of time.

TL;DR people are going to poke you until you stop flinching.

thejimz: It's out of control. Maybe the older and higher-rep posters can ignore rep loss, but only a thin line separates negative and positive rep for the little guys (like me). I was at 70 rep 24 hours ago, and now I'm at 59. Why? Who knows! Maybe I'll be at -20 when I wake up tomorrow. I'm not a famous poster who can fall back on everyone recognizing me. It's worrying.

I thought I could stay out of the downrepping storm by keeping quiet and not interacting with the scammers, but it didn't help. What else am I supposed to do? Let them enter all of my giveaways, like they asked? I somehow don't think that's a good idea. If nothing else, the downrep button needs to be removed. The Steam User Forums seem to get along just fine with only a +rep option.

WBGhiro: it's just a number.hahaha.

gunsynd: What a bunch of hippocrates.

SalarShushan: ^This^ I am up-repping pretty much every decent post on the thread. C'mon everyone we can turn this around if we stand against it. Up-rep all downrepped posts that aren't deserving of downrepping. Its pretty obvious when someone is being ganged up on and their posts are kind or at least reasonable. I'm up-repping all kind posters too as a preventative against any punitive stuff. Please join in?.

My own 2 cents? Gunsynd, please don't take a real economic hit by deleting your account and access to great deals on games you love because of some stupid trolls. You can keep your full account and just ignore the forums if they annoy you that much. Your anger caused you to lose perspective for a bit, but I hope you will see that now that you've had some hours to calm down and not feel obliged to follow through.

Okay - lots of posts since then I can can't stand to up-rep :P

BillyMaysFan59 is a seriously nice guy, Gunsynd. Please don't do that again? Thanks.

Anyway, I've off-set what damage I can to everyone and those who weren't attacked should see a net boost. Here's hoping for a saner tomorrow

I liked the cheesecake recipe. Here's another

gunsynd: And did you put a:
I got my first star GA.
I got my second star GA.
I got my third star GA.
I got my fourth star GA.
Well,wanker.

HereForTheBeer: Most of us "hypocrites" were saying the exact same thing - "It's just a number" - when our reps were well below your current number. This is hardly the first round of "rep abuse", something that has been discussed periodically since the early days.

Kinda tired of being chastised as part of this group simply because my number is relatively high. I think I've held 3 public giveaways, for a whopping 15 "bought" points. Hell, let's call it 100 points. So maybe that 1,000+ 'status' has something to do with the manner in which we have participated in the forum? Lots of 1,000+ people don't hold giveaways (or rarely do) so I think the "buying rep" claim is, frankly, a load of shit.

gOg: call the bluff.

darthspudius: You okay? You had a point to begin with but this is getting a little silly.

EBToriginal: Like I said, he lacks the self awareness to better himself and give up a pointless whine that has long transgressed the original point to how much of a crybaby the OP is.

EBToriginal: No because you are the big strong man who solves all his problems by punching them in the face, but had a massive panty wadding tizzy fit over a number on an Internet forum.

That is goddamn hilarious and I will ride it until you let it go.