… No bad reputation? Hmm.
How about hovering over my 1 red block. I'm 'looked down upon'. Others, even with 'green' reputations '..have no influence' or 'barely matter'. Pretty nasty comments, especially as there appears no way of knowing who disagreed or even agreed with the posts. ...
First please see what I wrote
Also as far as I understood, …
Second, I've never seen a negative reputation (below zero), except during the introduction phase, which had been corrected by the Administrators.
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It may have nothing to do with torrents but if that can be the 'reputation' for people who make a net contribution to torrents or always thank seeders or try to participate in forums, it doesn't encourage people (or at least me) to add to this site.So the vast majority of people who never post in a forum can never have a 'reputation', good or bad.
That is limited due to the Forum and the main site being separated on our system. Comments to the torrents are on the main site, not in the Forum. There are many ways contributors to torrents are rewarded, for example the Seed Bonus Point gifts or higher number of allowed torrents downloading.
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"...positive contributions to the Forum."
No, people with whom moderators don't disagree would appear to be nearer the mark.
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Not really, because the agreement / disagreement is limited in frequency (I think to remember once a day) and in addition can't be given in a row to the same member. Further any member can use the blue hearts not only Staff and the Staff is largely outnumbered by the other users. You can as well disagree with the Staff.
Try it, you can disagree with any Staff member and thus reduce our reputation.
Reputation depends as well from the number of topics started and the number of replies, so forum "spamming" adds to reputation. Since the Staff is very active in the Forum, we got a quite high reputation through that.
"…there isn't really anywhere that explains what they are."
No, but enough people (experienced?) know how to use them so I am "looked down on".
What's two red blocks? "Dog turd on my shoe"?
Perhaps enough people don't like the hate which aspirates through the way you put your words. Nobody is asking you to agree with the Staff or other members, critical augmented posts are worth positive blue hearting, too (at least IMHO)
and really I don't know what happens with two red block and if they are even possibly existing