langurmonkey: Easy for you to say. You think you are immune to being down reped? If a bunch of people target YOU for downrep bullying one day, I bet, you will change your mind. You will probably create a thread and then write a massive wall of whining text to convince people the rep system needs to go. And this post of yours, pretty much announces to the world, that you are one of the people who enjoys bullying others with the down rep button. The "Haha, now the OP is down repped." And the "I love this system." is strong evidence of that.
Nirth: First, I don't think I'm immune to being down repped and I don't want to be, that defeats the purpose. And no even if I was being massively down repped I wouldn't create a thread about it, I'm not a drama queen. I don't know why you assume I would.
As for the laugh, it was sarcastic.
I think your problem is that you don't seem to accept that people have different opinions, but I believe others have said that already.
Sarcastic? Sure... Did I anger you by revealing to the forum, the truth? Is that why on top of trying to convince me I'm wrong, you are attacking my character when you have no reason to other than satisfying yourself. Listen, kid. I don't have a problem. I don't see a problem with not accepting every word that comes out of every person's mouth. It's called being a human being with beliefs, and not a sponge. One who is not a sponge, sees a right and a wrong. I wonder why you single me out for not being a sponge. Go to a nearby church and tell them, God is not real. I'm pretty sure, they wont accept this. Go to a nearby country and tell the people there, your country is better than theirs... I highly doubt the people there will accept this. See, in life, a lot of people don't just accept this or that. I don't know why you haven't learned this. Even PC RPGs teach this to people. Choose a dialogue option and the character you are talking to, accepts it or doesn't accept it. Sometimes when a character, doesn't accept it, the character starts trying to convince you that you are wrong. Sometimes, the character will stop talking to you, start bullying you or attack you etc. This is based on real life... Maybe you should leave the basement time to time, and experience, real life.
I won't write anymore because I don't want to take up too much of your time. :P You have some judging to do, so you can determine who in this forum, needs to be punished for their crimes of saying things that displease Nirth. It's not enough to just to be nasty to those who write horrible evil things in your eyes, you also have to downrep every single post that comes from this person for the rest of your life. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED. And there is nothing wrong with that, because it's not like, a low rep, kills. It sounds like, YOU have a problem...Nirth because you downrep bully the people with different opinions...when normal people don't.
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The last part of your post is pure bullshit because it only takes 4 people to lower someone's rep and there are a lot of people who are neutral and a lot of people just too lazy to +1 someone. So if someone loses rep, it doesn't mean, that is what the community wants... It seems you are defending your toys(the rep system) so nobody takes them away from you...