DubConqueror: For clarification: if someone has negative reputation, it can either mean they are really a total jackass, but it could also be a helpful, positively contributing member of the community who has had the ill luck of stepping on the toes of trolls who use bots or otherwise abuse the system to constantly down-rep that person out of a feeling of personal vendetta that's totally undeserved. [...]
Conversely, If someone has a high positive reputation, it can might mean that they are helpful, kind, funny, or at least post a lot without making too many asshole remarks. But it can also mean that they're a petty, spiteful bigot with a martyr complex who's merely hosted a lot of giveaways over the years, or that they haunt various game-specific forums, answering many, many questions, and frequently getting posts marked as the solution, even though they're an imperious twat with a pathological inability to admit they could be wrong. (These are
totally hypothetical examples, by the way -- absolutely not real forum regulars. <.< )