I was suprised how much of mine didn't come from general chat. I guess I got a lot from helping someone out that one time.
No need to be sad. We simply rep you in your posts that are out of the Off Topic area, where rep counts, and then you'll be back out of the red in no time!!! *ducks*
Hmmm... that seemed really off to me, so I double checked your rep (current and from before the change), and it does appear right. You got most of your negative rep outside the General Chat forum, then a ton of positive rep inside General Chat. So it means it's actually working as designed. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I'll gladly take away the ability for certain users to give rep if they abuse it. A bunch of potential abusers were already warned via PM. You can consider this your (and everyone else's) warning.
And the foot comes down... I lost two greens, but who really cares. It was kind of off how you could get one green that would give 30 positive points, and then 5 straight reds only changing your rep one point. Not that I ever had that happen to me personally.
What's the definition of rep abuse, becides reping in the game threads? If we can't rep in the Off Topic area, or out of it, where can we rep some one? When are we allowed to agree/disagree with a post? Or are webmaster related threads the only place where we can rep with out doing 'abuse'? And that's the only 'abuse' we were doing....having fun with it.
Repping for no other reason than wanting to alter the user's total rep would be considered abuse. For example finding posts by a specific user so you can rep him (regardless of the content of the post).
I searched for reputation n got some answers on how it works but i don't know how to find out which post of mine has got the reputation, any advice? I can't go clicking on the weight tool for every post til i find it... i found out i lost about 20 reputation somehow :-| but i dont know for what ( would love to find out what so i can avoid it ) :S Advice?
ohhh thanks alot i never noticed that, how dumb of me =) Also brings up a point, no one has left me a neg recently yet i still lost points somehow Someone left me a gray for a post that wasnt offensive at all? i guess the guy didnt like me trying to help Anyways thanks again!