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**Yosei** · 09-13-2008, 02:42 PM

No offense, but really, if you didn't care... you wouldn't bring this up. I mean, there's nothing wrong with you caring, you're concerned with what people on the forums think of you obviously, but remember, its the internet. I've gotten plenty of de-reps before, not once have I said anything about it.

I found it disrespectful to call out the people who de-repped you because its meant to be anonymous, not only to you, but to the community. Sometimes people want to express an opinion on your posts without making it public, thus avoiding drama.

**Sero** · 09-13-2008, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by Yosei

No offense, but really, if you didn't care... you wouldn't bring this up.

I brought this up because I wanted to address to the person who did the de-rep.

What I don't care about is my FF reputation.

My concern is the act, not the effect.

Originally Posted by Yosei

you're concerned with what people on the forums think of you obviously, but remember, its the internet. I've gotten plenty of de-reps before, not once have I said anything about it.

Do I have to repeat what I keep saying? People in the forums can think of me as anything they want. Cause in forums is way different from IG and IRL.

And yes I know it's the internet. That's why I dun care about what people think of me as, unlike IG and IRL where my real self is what I present to people. Though I do care about what they'd say if I'd have anything to comment back to what they do say.

Originally Posted by Yosei

I found it disrespectful to call out the people who de-repped you because its meant to be anonymous, not only to you, but to the community. Sometimes people want to express an opinion on your posts without making it public, thus avoiding drama.

person*

The only other time I made a thread cause of de-reps was when Omies was still around, cause yeah. That one was stupid as well XD

In the SS in my first thread, it may have shown 2 de-reps but I meant only the last one. The one that says "I don't strip -.-" is out of this, cause I know Luna would give me that one lol

And if that person wanted to express an opinion on a post of mine in the thread "Serodin" without making it public, why not do it through a PM? That way I could have reacted to him pleasantly, I'd know who he is, take his comment even at the least consideration I'd take at, and communicate back, saying what I wanted to say about it ("Look at my other posts in the thread, that would be a good feedback to your comment.")

Cause a PM ain't public, aye?

If he'd known better, he would've delivered the comment through a PM, cause if he delivered it through a de-rep which he did, he'd figure out that I'd wanna reply to it, but I can't give a straight reply since he is anonymous, which would result to me provoking him in public.

Generally my concept on this particular matter is~

If he would've PMed me the comment, the whole thing wouldn't have been exposed to the public, and I could have replied/reacted in a proper manner.

If he de-repped me, I would've made a thread provoking him in order to know who he is, resulting to me being able to reply to his comment, plus this whole thing being shown to the public thus creating a little mess and havoc.

^ out of those 2, the 2nd thing is what happened.

Now, if you were in my place, his/her place or even in the admins' place, which of the 2 situations would you rather prefer?

Yes, generally it would be impolite and disrespectful to provoke or even just call out the anonymous person who gave a + or - rep. But it all would depend on the comment, if it's worth replying to, if it's worth pondering about. Only the comment recipient can judge on whether or not the comment WOULD BE worth replying to or not since he is the one taking it, but it'd depend on his/her sincerity on taking it.

EDIT~Bedtime for me now, it's midnight. Talk to you people again in 7 hours.

**Lady-Loki** · 09-13-2008, 04:19 PM

The rep system is anonymous to allow comment without confrontation. Use the comments made to consider if there is any way you can improve on how and what you post.

I figured out a long time ago that you are not serious in the majority (if not all) of your posts, so for the most part I read over yours as just a side dish of humor added to the serious family dinner. Everyone may not have come to accept you as just that.

Perhaps a better option may have been to make a post like:

Quote:

Title: Iâ€™m Just Not Too Serious

Body: Someone de-repped me stating only â€œtake some things seriously =/â€.

Let me explain please, real life is already way too serious and school is way too serious. And I realize when I become an adult a real life job will be way too serious. Considering all this part of life that is way too serious I find the forums to be the place I can cut up and have fun and be as far from serious as possible. So, please, just know and understand that I am just not going to be serious about stuff on these forums except on some rare occasion when a thread might speak to a particularly serious part of my brain.

I think the majority of the people on these forums know this about me, but based on your rep comment I assume you donâ€™t so I thought I would enlighten you so that you can chuckle at my posts rather than letting them be an annoyance to you.

See? A win/win solution.

And BTW, yeah, this one is one of my serious posts. kkthx and back to my silliness

**Ivramire** · 09-13-2008, 04:33 PM

Something I forgot to put-

De-rep = trifling. something you don't worry about once it's sent and gone. Person reads the de-rep message and forgets about it the next day. No one to message back to, no animosity, no further side-effects, no messages to delete, nothing. Since it's already established that you don't care about rep on forums, that should have been the end of it, but...it's obviously not.

**kirbysprite** · 09-13-2008, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by lvramire

Something I forgot to put-

De-rep = trifling. something you don't worry about once it's sent and gone. Person reads the de-rep message and forgets about it the next day. No one to message back to, no animosity, no further side-effects, no messages to delete, nothing. Since it's already established that you don't care about rep on forums, that should have been the end of it, but...it's obviously not.

That's true. I got this one rep that said, thanks for rep. I didn't know who I repped...