One thing that needs to be added to the reputation discussion is perspective...
I'm not sure how quick you have been brought up to speed, but apparently there is a cap where one can only gain or lose 5 rep a day. But if one makes a post they gain one. What this means for a regular poster is that the loss is at most 4 points per day.
I used to have 1000 rep and 4 stars. Apparently some people took umbrage to that and started hitting me every day until I dropped down to about 700. That stopped for awhile and I got back to 1000 until the past downswing. If you see my rep now, you'll notice that's almost a 1200 point loss. That takes almost a full year if one is never upvoted either. The truth is, I have been having my reputation attacked for at least 2 straight years because a lot of people appreciate my spreadsheet giving details on the sales of the games on this site which has countered some of the loss.
Think about what that says about Tauto? Not outright defending him, because he has a history of causing trouble, but that is no excuse for every post of his to be constantly downvoted regardless of content. Just look at this thread and how some people's posts have been low-rated despite presenting a reasonable opinion. They are attacked because of who they are, not the posts they make. This is what I mean by the bullying and harassment of people on this forum.
Some of these self-appointed "do-gooders" have taken it upon themselves to name call, downvote and harass other users off the forum (presumably to "make GoG better") when all they are really doing is adding to the strife. They bad mouth people until they make an angry response and then try to report them for it.
Notice how Breja, SirPrimalform, and Fairfox seem to think it's okay to insultingly accuse people of "whining" about rep, and when I told Fairfox to "go get hit by a bus" or Breja to "Go die in a fire", I'm accused of "issuing death threats" as these vain people try to find every made up and ridiculous excuse to remove their "enemies" from the forum. They've done the same for years, calling people "whiners" or "trolls" or all kinds of other names and when someone finally has had enough and tells them to eff off, they try to report them for their language.
Fables claimed she was going to look into the issue, but she didn't.
These people are causing as much problem on these forums as Tauto. All the personal attacks from every side need to stop. People need to quit downvoting others over complaining about their rep. They need to quit the personal attacks and harassment. They need to quit downvoting every post by particular individuals regardless of content. I'm sick and tired of being told I should "take a break" from the forum because I'm "too angry". Why shouldn't I be angry when these jerks constantly attack and harass you day after day for years?
What needs to change is downvoting and negative reputation needs to be removed. That's a start. It takes away one of the weapons these bullies are using. And then those who join a discussion with the sole intent of insulting another need to start getting warnings. It's one thing when a topic flares up as two sides disagree, but nowadays, certain individuals go into discussions just to make it go down in flames. They never once address the topic, just attack certain people in it. Calling them "Nazis" while never once addressing the actual topic of discussion. Exactly as in the deleted thread where the mere mention that I ended up voting for Donald Trump was responded to with the claim that makes me a "sexist, racist, alt-right Nazi" just for voting for him. It can't possibly be that I thought Hillary Clinton was dangerous in her talk about "doing more about Russia and the Middle East" which sounded like she wanted to go to war again (which I feel is a waste of our tax dollars which could be better spent on reducing the deficit or other services), or that I thought focusing more attention on our trade deficit and bringing jobs back to the U.S.) offsets the things I did not like about Trump. To some people they try to claim the only reason people voted for Trump is racism or sexism. Apparently they can't understand the concept of voting for the person one thinks might do the better job. I thought both of them were terrible candidates. Watching those debates was painful, but those were our choices after the primary...
The point being, I shouldn't be attacked for a reasonable opinion, nor threatened or bullied off the forum by other forum users for expressing it. The rep attacks and outright hostility to other users needs to stop.
Post edited June 09, 2018 by RWarehall
