I've never seen a blue one (or a red one ) But the gray ones are from people that have less than 25 posts.

 

Must be gray then. My eyes aren't what they used to be. Thanks for clarifying that.

 

Must be a new thing....

 

not sure, but i think blue rep is from someone that does not leave a message, just a positive, and grey is from junior members. or the other way around.

 

or rufus hid your glasses again, and you can't see the colors.

 

Rufuss either eats stuff, chews it to pieces, or pees on it. It never changes color....

I should know - I taught him well:

If you can't:
1)Fight it
2)Fornicate with it
3)Eat it

~You should pee on it

(and he's a good dog)

Rufuss is my favorite fuzzy kiddo

 

well he learned from the best!!


now all ya have to do is teach him how to fetch $100 bills and fix your trucks, and you will be set!!

 

I got a negative rep once. It was from someone who wasn't a major player on the site (therefore didn't do much damage), and the comment he left was actually a good one! I messaged him about it, because it really confused me, but I think he accidentally hit the wrong button, although since the positive is defaulted, that seemed weird. Regardless, it's been long buried and I don't even remember who the culprit was.

I remember a few threads being started when someone bragged about their first negative rep. They wore it like some silly badge of honor that they'd pissed someone off enough to get a negative attack.

I have read some comments that made me almost blind with rage, posts that made my heart rate increase to a dangerously high rate, and posts that were so completely ridiculous that I had no idea how to respond to them, but I have never resorted to negative rep. I would much rather attack someone with whom I disagree so vehemently using well constructed prose and a few well placed bold and underlined phrases.

 

Never given negative rep. I've gotten it three times but really didn't care too much. Those that did it were insignificant turds who are now on my ignore list and I'm hoping the letters "F" "O" mean something to them.

I give positive rep pretty frequently. Doesn't seem too nice to hoard it and not spread the love as I've seen some others do.

 

I first dropped red rep on someone before I had it figured out - and later regretted it. I went back and dropped a green rep later, but as I said it isn't half as good as not doing it to begin with.

Since then in all the time I have come here I have only done that a very few times, to people who challenged me on the point after dropping their own cherry bomb on me.
It was strange - they seemed to think not back-slamming them was an act of cowardice.

~So I said "okay"

I have no idea what red rep amounts to from somebody with damned near as much rep as KP himself, but I knew it couldn't be good.

As far as I could tell they were satisfied, but why they would want it I just don't know. It's like they had set themselves up as the mouse in that old cartoon: "Last Great Act of Defiance"

This and another comment above tends to make me think there is such a thing as a "Reputation Masochist". A personality that demands to be rubbed in the dirt for personal gratification - but I can't imagine why...

What we try to do at FTE is to gather people together to share ideas and experience because they feel welcome and comfortable in this place online, which is another reason why I wonder at the red rep capability. To drop a cherry bomb on a person here is as good as rubber stamping them with the following:



Why would they ever come back?

What we really want here, and what has made the site so great, is that people feel welcome and respected.

 

Sorry if some one already answered, but these are from people who have not enough post to rep you yet with.

 

I have been in some heated exchanges in the club and GNC.........gone to DEFCON 1 a couple times, but never pushed the red nuke button.

I think the option to drop neg. rep should be "nuked".

 

It would solve a lot of problems, but I wonder if it can be split off or the entire rep system would have to go away.

 

I do like the rep system. I most definitely spread more than I get. I'm ok with that. I think it fosters good relationships and shows appreciation for ones efforts, wit, wisdom and friendship.

I don't go on any other sites like FTE anymore. They don't give me the rush that FTE does.