Thread: Negative Rep

So recently some of us have gotten the dreaded negative rep. Just as you can approve of someone's post you can disapprove as well. I got one the other day for saying that a guy who tattooed a girls face is a creep and deserved a beating. Sometimes when people give you rep, negative or positive they make a comment and sometimes they don't. Unlike the "thanks" system where the name of the benefactor is listed for all to see no one knows who left the negative rep.... unless the donor chooses to identify themselves. So Ray (Rajagra) just got one. He is not sure what fault whoever left it found with his post. Nun2sharp and JMS have recently received negatives. I only know because they told me or they posted about it. None of them know who left the neg.

I just went to Ray's page and viewed his statistics. On a person's page you can view their thanked posts but it doesn't give a statistic for their negatives. So what is the point ? Is it to let the individual poster know that someone disapproved of their post ? I'm not knocking the system or suggesting that someone shouldn't be allowed to leave a negative, I'm just trying to figure out what the system is about. To be honest I am glad that the person doesn't have to leave their identity with their negative. We don't need retaliatory negatives going back and forth or ill will between us when we are here after all is said and done because of our love of straight razors and shaving with them. Just food for thought is all.