and sausages in the right mash pile with loadsa gravy!
*looks at blakstar

The gnu approves!

The vulcan buggered and murdered the gnu, put it in the boot of a car and dropped it off a cliff into the ocean months ago... :(

Mmmm, I just took some chorizo out of the freezer to cook up tomorrow and make soup.

*watches sachys urinate in the pot for tomorrow's soup*

.... Oh, I see you're having pee soup.

Yeah, I hear you...getting pretty tired of asking down-reppers to stop with the negitivity in the non-gog ask thread. It just is such a drag seeing peeps geting neg-repped for asking in a thread specifically designed for people TO ASK. I mean wtf is up with that - I mean just ignore it if it bothers you but why down-rep? I don't get it...I really don't :-(

I was going to say skeletonbow should make sure Sachys didn't swap the chorizo for caca.

We've established that that's probably a script, designed precisely to piss off decent folks like you. There's no rhyme or reason to the down-repping so it's best not to pay it any mind, just up-rep what needs up-repping.

... Maybe the soup will have sachys's ... Dumplings....

I can understand the reasoning behind the neg-repping, even if I don't necessarily agree with it.

Generally, and I'm trying to help those who are new here, the rules to follow for the gifting threads seem to be:

1. Don't ask for too much at once
2. Don't repeat your requests too often
3. Try to limit any requests to items that are on sale/not newly released
4. Don't forget to thank anyone that grants your request
5. Overall be polite and considerate

I'm not saying that I'm an expert on these matters, but from repeated observation the above rules seem to be the ones to follow.

Granted, they don't always work, as some forum veterans probably know, but hopefully should help!

(And for everyone else, sorry for the newbie instruction manual :-))

EDIT: Sorry, dragonsreach, I wasn't classing you as a newbie, but with the sudden seeming influx, and the talk of neg-repping, this seemed the best place to reply/put my post!

It doesn't piss me off - it saddens me. There is a difference. And if it's a script then why do some posters get down-repped and others don't? But yeah, you're right though cleaning up after asses does actually piss me off. Hey, I clean the bathrooms in my house - isn't that enough for a momo?

*points at poo tassles, points at stage.

Soap-box mode finished -- I'll get back to sausages soon enough! :-)

my best guess is (as regards to the regulars being derepped on said thread) its the same person or people that grab every naked code going (through bots or gluttony), anything else going and uprep drops of dozens of exploited keys every time they are posted. my wisdom and my gut feeling says its not a lurker either - it does inf act suggest an idiot with multiple accounts. thats all i have to say on that. would you like a chocolate?

There are exceptions of course such as a new user with a big ask, then at least i can see another angle on the derep initiative whther i think its right or not (i'd rather the derepper explain why it might be bad form in such a case), but as to regulars... my above words stand!
narp!

Ohhhh, chocolate??? ~forgets everything else and sits up and drools~ ;-p
Agreed that ALL of your points are common sense but not everyone has had a mother instill (read bash) that into their behavior (read head). BUT despite bad manners and overly reaching requests, no one should be neg-repped. It doesn't take too long for these peeps to get that those asks do not get fulfilled. So they either go away or they get a clue and read what requests DO get fulifilled and adjust their requests.... THE THREAD is self-regulating and THE GIFTERS make it so, Sulu ;-p