So in your mind giving someone a neg rep point for insulting a fellow member is bad?
The first neg rep point I gave to asapc or anyone was over silhouette. She was attacking her personally in posts then attacking her in other threads where silhouette was not even a part of. Silhouette is not a friend of mine, I don’t think we even agree on anything. It was the point that it was wrong for her to be attacked so badly. She stopped posting here pretty much since then and even though I do not agree with her on almost anything, it was sad to see her seem “chased out”
If you think giving her a neg point and explaining in the comment section why in a polite way was wrong then fair enough. But to say it was about my not winning an argument is just flat silly. I gave her neg rep points for personal attacks to other members on this forum, she in return gave myself and Gen and I don’t know who all else neg rep points for things like Gen posted a debt clock.. No words with the post just the actual dept clock, for me asking a question and in the comment section never mentioned the post, just a good paragraph of personal insults.
Finally about the last two weeks before the system was shut down, when she would give me a neg rep point for.... pick a post any post because it was never about the posts it was just a way to send a personal insult to me, I started just sending them back to her. Wrong on my part, I can admit that. I should have just laughed it off.
It had gone on a long time before I finally got frustrated enough to give asapc a neg rep point over it and it was the first one I have ever given. I have only given one other neg rep point the rest were all positive. Many to you, to SamSara, to Mare and Popeye.
To say it was some gang effort??? If anything it is the other way around. I don’t know who did it but a couple of weeks ago a few people (obviously on the left) targeted Gen Seneca and reduced his points by over 20 in one day. Had the plan worked out for this group, they would be loving the rep system (the plan would have worked out too had it been better thought out)
The mods do not know that I was given neg rep points every other day by asapc with very nasty personal insults because I did not cry to the mods about it. They also do not know that Gen was hit so much that he lost over 20 points in one day because he did not go crying to the mods about it. Not to mention a dozen other times I was hit by random people who did not leave names and I know Gen told me the same happened to him.
But I really can not believe how you can twist this into being about losing an argument or ganging up on people.
If it makes you feel better to think I gave asapc neg points on posts that personally attacked other members in threads I was not even a part of because I was losing some argument with her then go ahead and feel that way, and if you want to pretend there was no gang hit on Gen trying to reduce his points not because his posts were bad, wrong or attacking then you can believe that too.
Coming from a party/mind set where
Sandy Berger can inadvertently shove classified documents down his underpants and in his socks and its ok... I should not expect any more or less.