Why can't I give out reputation and only Thanks?

[Codename Section]

I can't rep anyone. Some of us were on a gaming site and they allowed negative reps. I must have had 53 negative reps. It was awesome.

[Captain Obvious]

I can't rep anyone. Some of us were on a gaming site and they allowed negative reps. I must have had 53 negative reps. It was awesome.

You should have been here when a former member called Cary Grant was here and we were doing negative repping - he had some really stupid negative rep score.

That guy was a real tool.

[Codename Section]

You should have been here when a former member called Cary Grant was here and we were doing negative repping - he had some really stupid negative rep score.

That guy was a real tool.

I should probably go back over there to $#@! on the new Xbox coming out.

[Chris]

I can't rep anyone. Some of us were on a gaming site and they allowed negative reps. I must have had 53 negative reps. It was awesome.

Because you give out too many thanks. They count against rep limit.

It'd be fun to have a Groan button!

[Chris]

Give a man a fish...
@Adelaide @Peter1469 - I make a motion to reconsider rep limits.

I'd vote either get rid of reps or get rid of limits on it.

[roadmaster]

Someone's not holding their mouth correctly, just like fishing.

[Dr. Who]

I guess so...

Have you been thanking a lot?

[Dr. Who]

I have not been able to rep anyone in weeks. Just curious.

The bottom line is that there are limits on rep. It's affected by thanks. Why? Because we get juvenile partisan members who will sit there and thank and rep their friends endlessly to deliberately increase their Karma, which simply makes a mockery of the stat. We had negative rep which was similarly abused. I think the idea is now, if you can't rep something nice, then you can't rep anything at all, but no free for alls. So you use your thanks and rep judiciously.

[Captain Obvious]

Have you been thanking a lot?

I understand how that works, I just don't see a reason to limit either.

[Chris]

The bottom line is that there are limits on rep. It's affected by thanks. Why? Because we get juvenile partisan members who will sit there and thank and rep their friends endlessly to deliberately increase their Karma, which simply makes a mockery of the stat. We had negative rep which was similarly abused. I think the idea is now, if you can't rep something nice, then you can't rep anything at all, but no free for alls. So you use your thanks and rep judiciously.