[SilverSmoke]

People can stick by their arguments to support the rep system, they might even be valid in some sense. Still it doesn't take a genius to see people are getting driven away from here as a result of a more negative atmosphere that's being fueled by the reputation system in combination with a couple of twats.

It doesn't fit a purpose to care about negative rep, but obviously a lot of people do. Half of the oldies have been gone because of being fed up of people who take the internet far too seriously, seriously in a warfield kind of way I'm talking about and newcomers get intimidated by very picky gd veterans and their enormous green staff.

We can fill this thread discussing why people shouldn't care about reputation but it will not prevent this board dying out while it might've had some more years to go otherwise.