For me it's quite the opposite: 90% of people here are civil and intelligent. Perhaps I'm a madman ;)

Though I mostly agree with your statement. As for the reputation system I think it's some kind of an instrument of self moderation by community, it's not perfect, it's broken, but it works at least partially.

Who cares, it doesnt affect what you have to say in the slightest or your ability to say it.
I think its wierd people care about the system at all.

*lol* I guess GOG wouldn't even notice. The forum isn't anything important to them. It's a place where a few dozen regulars play forum games, confuse newbies with weird "Where's the wizard?" posts, or have their usual politics/SJW-bullshit discussions. At this point I stopped reading your post. I barely post here anymore, but I'll see to post something between Aug 4 and 11, just to be a part of the problem.

ps. And yes, I know that massive downvoting is a "problem" here. My rep was somewhere around 1500 a few years ago. Then I told NES that he's a poor pussy who's living in his parents basement, has no friends and thinks he's the greatest because he knows how to open a browser - I even think it was in a thread where NES boasted about killing the rep of everyone who isn't nice to him :P

Mate lots of regulars (and nice people at that) have left these forums permanently over the years because of the toxic attitudes here and it hasn't changed a thing. Hell, IT'S STILL HAPPENING. Members are dropping off the forum, it's just that most of them aren't "signing off" when they do it, so people don't notice. I'd like to be optimistic, but even if you get a good following it won't change anything.

Chances are also that the culprits down-repping aren't posting anything anyway, and/or using silent alts to do their dirty work and pointing the finger at those who either didn't read this thread or don't care to participate in your boycott as dirty downreppers or somehow complicit is asinine.

So no, I'm not signing this. Someone let me know when the "hot wire in the blood sample" tests start.

I've seen some of your recent downvoted posts, I am not sure it's inoffensive...

I'd love to, If CDP Blue would get their fingers out and actually REPLACE this horse vomit of a forum with something along the lines of what CDPR gwent forums are (like I know) everyone would say *thank god*
and didn't have any forum rep whatsoever No +'s and no -'s would help

Can't argue with this
I've been gone for a little over two weeks and I'm happier, more upbeat, less confrontational.

Shit, even my cat has noticed a difference and he usually ignores me, except when his food bowl is empty, then he's my best friend.

Agh hahahahah I though you told me you LEFT the forum, Oh you finally are making sense now?

TinyE was like This before he left.

Rep is pointless. If trolls wanna waste their time on de-repping instead of actual trolling, consider it a great decoy that makes the forum a better place.

To be honest, I don't think GOG/CDPR cares about the forum all that much. If people stopped using it for social stuff it wouldn't really matter. It's just a more or less obligatory part of running a decent game store. Users helping each other and so on. The social aspect is just icing on the cake.

Translation: If you're not 100% pro me - you're 100% anti me.
Ah man, if only everything in life would be so easy, huh?

Well, here's a little heads up: I won't participate in your forum boycott.
But please don't let that decourage you from doing it...maybe you even want to expand it a little...I mean: why stop after just one week?

Feel free to draw any conclusions by that, as you see fit.

Oh, btw: have you ever looked into the other main forums here (the ones in different languages)?

Those are in the exact state, that you try to "threaten" GOG with: ("GOG staff will see their General Discussion turn into a ghost town overnight. No replies to their sales or new game announcements").

Well, here's the thing: GOG staffers already know that from every other of their forums right now - without any "boycott"...and as far as I can tell: they don't give a shit.
It simply means less work for them - great.

I'm going to be hella complicit-through-inaction. I have a forum mafia game to play that week.

Times like this make me wish I could peer into users posting history to check thoroughly and see what exactly fleemed their micros.

Meh, its just a number but I commend you that you at least believe in something, even if its just useless stuff that can be at best considered arbitrary. I've been downvoted as well and after a day I got like 10+ rep for literally no reason which made me want to believe that its more likely that the system might be bugged.

The only thing that was weird that nobody really understands why somebody might get downvoted or not. I miss the 90s and mid 00s, at least back then you had people who actually wrote dozens of dramatic pages. Nowdays even that seemed to be dumbed down. Getting nostalgic about classic online drama stuff, now thats a sign on how bad things are, haha!

I obviously can't tell you what to think or believe but I do recommend that you shouldn't post (or stop posting depending on your mindset) simply because of this meaningless reputation number. Rather, participate in the community simply because you like them and if you have a problem then you simply quit and have fun with other things. I'm 100% certain that there is a online community for everyone out there. If you really can't bear THE NEGATIVE NUMBERS beyond just normal community interaction then perhaps just quitting might be the best deal for you.

Just don't be too melodramatic about the number alone, again its just a something that holds no meaning to anyone on here.

I'm glad that you're back! Can't really think about this forum without you. Its kinda like you belong to this place.

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Your post divisionbyzero was an unpopular opinion. Guess maybe that was the reason why people started downvoting you for.

And i really wouldn't be too worried about some rep number. Sure it gets annoying when you hit rep so low that you can't post links, but there is still a way to post links anyway.

Sure it wouldn't be bad to remove the rep feature, but how about this we could still have a this post was low rated up rated without the rep number. Low rated posts can be marked as spam sometimes which is important for when somebody does post spam.

And in the end rep doesn't really effect much here. If you hang around and post good you are good. If someday somebody says you need this much rep to be in this giveaway, you can always reason with the person if you posted enough good on the forums and were unfairly downvoted which i've seen happen i think.
Your boycott won't do a thing here since not many people are for it.

The best thing you can do is to avoid focusing too much on the reputation points. There will always be different people in this world, who are being offended by random, irrelevant stuff.

*Moded, please be polite when posting.