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Originally Posted by dtengineering
I Yeah, they are just dots, but what they represent in the way of a model to recognize community contributions is, I think, significant.
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Agreed.
To answer the question,
If I were to give negative rep, I would only give it when someone is being incredibly rude. Putting down a team, talking negatively about one's appearance in a thread, and calling other people names. It's the type of thing where I think they are being offensive and could possibly hurt the feelings of another FIRSTer. And this of course is not common at all in CD forums and thats why it's not really a big deal for me.
Something to understand is that everyone has their own opinions and if they differ from yours, it doesn't necessarily mean that they're wrong.
As for negative rep given to me, I've only gotten it once from someone I gave negative rep to for being rude to multiple teams. The comment that came with his negative rep was rude as well, go figure.