Exactly.

It has taken me ~1080 days to earn this rep and technically, a fair amount of money.

It would take 1 person spending 5 minutes a day, 250 days to remove it and that's if they do it manually.
Actually, tinyE isn't the first. You missed the first (that I know of) by several months.

Gamerager? If you speak of him, what I understand is his behavior was extremely disruptive and he deserved it, eventually he saw his errors and became a better forum member? If not him, I've not heard of anyone being deserving of frequent derepping, fairly or unfairly.

It's not on an album. It was just a single, "Adult Education". Can't remember the B-side.

It was a new track on their first compilation album, Rock & Soul Part 1. IIRC, Say It Isn't So was the other new song on the album (you'll have to check wikipedia to confirm). I've got that album on CD around here somewhere. Yeah, yeah, I'm an unabashed Hall & Oates fan. You're out of touch, I'm out of time...

I assumed it was off something odd since I never heard it until I got their massive greatest hits compilation. Good song though.

Or maybe it was designed to reward people who help in the actual game subforums and not those who spam every thread in general discussion? There is this guy Gremlion in the Eador subforum who has only posted there, never gifted anything, and is only registered for half a year, and he has over 270 rep.
And look at me, getting into long downreppable arguments in General D. all the time, but my rep keeps going up because I help people in many game subforums.
I think it is a much better system than in other forums where in a controversial discussion you have to fear all the time that some moderator on a power trip doesn't like what you are saying. Also for some reason I tend to pay more attention to "low rated" posts, they have a weird attraction.

I didn't want to post in another rep topic but this grabbed my attention. I suppose it depends on how you define "negative" but if you mean "low rated" then that statement seems false.

I did not do any tests, so correct me if I am wrong, but based on your own tests, doesn't the rep system work the other way around also?

It needs 5 accounts to get a post high rated (+1 rep), 6 to do it "stealthy".
It takes 9-10 knowing about the abuse and coordinating to fix the damage.

The rating system seems to have a loop-hole which permits abuse, but it's not biased towards either positive or negative outcomes.

I lost 12 rep overnight . I had 632 when I went to sleep, and today when I logged in I had 620. I thought that couldn't happen ?

It's a funny quote to come from you, I think you're aware of the subtlety in it; People very rarely see their actions as unjust. In fact I think that you could ask just about any of history's monsters why they committed these unjust acts, and their first point would be that in their mind it was not unjust. I doubt Attila The Hun rode into battle with the cry "FOR INJUSTICE!!".

In this case I suspect the people doing this are basically a really pathetic form of vigilante. In their mind their actions are justice. In actual fact they're probably getting a kick out of the power, and therefore having "fun" (as Xyem said) but the disproportionate response probably doesn't seem disproportionate to them, and the "fun" is concealed from their concious behaviour.

You guys are hilarious.

+1 fantasticly put

That happens to me all the time. You'll get used to it.

A side note on the "unjust" discussion, VERY minor at best and does NOT speak for any but a very few in here, but I have had people post to me that they downrep people weather they deserve it or not for no other reason than they enjoy seeing them get mad about it. When I asked about that upsetting people who didn't do anything to 'deserve it' one of them responded "I could care less".

EDIT
Thank you! :D *kiss*

It takes 5 accounts. It only takes 1 person with 5 accounts and getting accounts is easy (you can create over 200 an hour manually).

The first user I can recall to really make himself unpopular on the forum was UK_John. If you can handle the insanity, here's the thread that destroyed his reputation back in 2008.