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Originally Posted by Treylina
When I don't know who did, it makes it even harder for me to know why I was negrepped in the first place.
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The reasons should be clear enough anyway.
If someone negreps you without a message, it just means "I don't approve of your post".
If someone negreps you with the message "noob" it means your post was noobish (i.e. you were unaware of something everyone knows and your posting made you look folish - in the case in question you somehow had never heard Raven rant on about the good old days which he claims to have been part of. For more fun, look through threads started by returning oldies where lots of people say "I remember you
", including Raven, and the thread starter invariably remembers everyone except Raven)
"lolol noob" sounds like an emphasized version of "noob", with a humorous aspect.
"lolol" would be the same, but there is a possibility that the person in question just thought it'd be funny to negrep you (perhaps because you keep mentioning being negrep'd on the forum - yeah, people can be so mean). I imagine it might have happened when you said "and don't negrep me because I like lori" in the end of one of your posts. Seriously, you don't even need to be especially immature to not resist that
(If I recall correctly, I fell for the temptation myself)
"stfu" would be an emphasized version of "I don't approve", implying that your post was either insulting to the person in question or one of their friends, or that you post too much in general and should save some figurative air for the rest of us
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There's another reason why it's easier to flame while you're anonymous. Because they don't know who you are exactly, and you know you won't get punched in the face, or flamed back possibly.
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This is the only reason you would want to know who did it: so you can confront them (admittedly you can do that in other ways than punching them in the face)
Surprise, surprise: I like the system as it is. When I want people know that I gave/took (the latter being rather hypothetical) rep from them, I just add "/Gry" at the end.
Sure, I've thought it annoying to receive commentless negreps in the past, but imo it's an OK trade-off for being able to express my own irritation anonymously instead of starting a lengthy forum flamewar (the kind where you do your best to keep your insults so subtle that the admins can't figure out a good reason to delete them) every time someone makes a stupid post.