[jambutty]

Originally Posted by blazey

I have a different view point to this but on the same lines.

Whilst I do not mind negative karma that is anonymous, I find it unfair when it is abusive rather than some valuable constructive criticism. I can't fix what I have done wrong if you just call me swear words and other horrible things, so it needs to be monitored by the moderators I think.

Offensive and insulting behaviour against other users is against forum rules anyway so why is it allowed in anonymous reputation? I believe abusive reputation should be cleared off a persons reputation, but the person who did it should not get their point back, they will just have to accept they wasted it for the sake of being nasty.

That's my view anyway, and if I remember rightly one of those green ones was off me

Good point. However I would add to it that if a negative Karma award is made with offensive or insulting comments then as well as being removed from the recipient’s total, at least double the points should be deducted from the sender.

The problem there is that someone – a mod – would have to decide what is offensive and insulting and what is not. And different people will have different views. I don’t think that it would be workable.

The only workable solution would be to have the username added automatically or dispense with this Karma nonsense altogether.