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Jagos
08-11-2011, 11:10 PM
Just a quick thought. Does negative rep ever fall off?
Bard The 5th LW
08-11-2011, 11:18 PM
Those are the kinds of questions that get you nega-repped.
rpgdemon
08-11-2011, 11:34 PM
Nope. I have two little gleaming red points from Krylo still.

I have a question: Rep is a signed value, right? So it could theoretically overflow to a hugely negative value, and ban a person? Like, if you wanted someone banned, the entire forum could rep them all the time?
Seil
08-11-2011, 11:40 PM
I've got nega-rep from Krylo, too. Odd.

But yeah - apparently the story is that the Joe Forumite was able to rep and nega-rep to his hearts content. Then Joe became a cockwalrus and nega-repped for his own nefarious purposes and the Mods removed the option. Now Joe can't nega-rep no body.
Meister
08-12-2011, 12:07 AM
I have a question: Rep is a signed value, right? So it could theoretically overflow to a hugely negative value, and ban a person? Like, if you wanted someone banned, the entire forum could rep them all the time?
Huh, that's a new one. I don't know, actually, but were that both possible and to happen, I reckon we'd quickly notice something was amiss, reinstate that person and then probably take away rep forever since people are bein' huge jerkburgers about it or otherwise tweak it so this couldn't happen again.
rpgdemon
08-12-2011, 12:12 AM
I volunteer.

For science.
Kim
08-12-2011, 12:14 AM
I was tempted to ask for negative rep for the fun of it a while back. Thought it'd be fun to have a bunch of red gems.
Fenris
08-12-2011, 01:12 AM
I was tempted to ask for negative rep for the fun of it a while back. Thought it'd be fun to have a bunch of red gems.

Because your eighteen thousand green ones aren't enough.
rpgdemon
08-12-2011, 01:22 AM
Says the guy with eighteen thousand and one.
Meister
08-12-2011, 01:31 AM
Well Jesus has around 100,000 and that doesn't break anything, and while my computer basics knowledge is so rusty Neil Young's going to name an album after it, if I understand this correctly the next higher value where it could cause problems hovers somewhere around the neighborhood of 2 billion.

So, y'know, have fun with that.
Bard The 5th LW
08-12-2011, 01:32 AM
Quick, everyone, rep J-dog now.
Jagos
08-12-2011, 02:28 AM
I have grey rep from 2003. I have no idea what for, it's just there.
Professor Smarmiarty
08-12-2011, 02:36 AM
I was tempted to ask for negative rep for the fun of it a while back. Thought it'd be fun to have a bunch of red gems.

It's been done.
Osterbaum
08-12-2011, 07:14 AM
I have grey rep from 2003. I have no idea what for, it's just there.
Grey rep is (or used to be?) rep given to you by someone who I think hadn't made enough posts or been a member for long enough for their rep to count either in the positive or negative. I think.
Loyal
08-12-2011, 09:09 AM
That is correct. It means they think you're cool/a jerk, but they're not important enough for their opinion to matter.
Ryanderman
08-12-2011, 10:17 AM
That is correct. It means they think you're cool/a jerk, but they're not important enough for their opinion to matter.

That's interesting... I got grey repped by God.
shiney
08-12-2011, 10:39 AM
There is a "promotion" (usergroup change) in the system when we were previously testing out new ways of tracking bad behavior, before the infraction system existed, that would force-ban a person once they reached -40 rep. This was while rep was disabled for users and only available for mods or above.

This is also partially why negative rep is still disabled for users. Also because it is a hidden way to troll people, and could be used and/or abused to rig the reputation scale.
Jagos
08-12-2011, 10:56 AM
Also because it is a hidden way to troll people, and could be used and/or abused to rig the reputation scale.

I see you trollin... You hatin...

Patrollin, keepin this site so nice and dirty.

Keepin it so nice and dirty
Keepin it so nice and dirty
Keepin it so nice and dirty
Keepin it so nice and dirty

My bridge is tolled out, I'm swingin...
My club while I'm keep this site so nice and dirty...
Token
08-12-2011, 12:06 PM
I see you trollin... You hatin...

Patrollin, keepin this site so nice and dirty.

Keepin it so nice and dirty
Keepin it so nice and dirty
Keepin it so nice and dirty
Keepin it so nice and dirty

My bridge is tolled out, I'm swingin...
My club while I'm keep this site so nice and dirty...

This is why we need negarep. :raise:
Krylo
08-12-2011, 12:09 PM
This is why we need negarep. :raise:

Got you covered, buddy.
rpgdemon
08-12-2011, 12:29 PM
Krylo's totally trolling me via the negarep system.

HE IS DOWNPLAYING THE IMPORTANCE OF SCIENCE.
Jagos
08-12-2011, 02:40 PM
Oh that's just wrong. I've seen the horrible puns rpgdemon does.

For science!
CABAL49
08-12-2011, 03:05 PM
I have no negative rep from Krylo. Cause I'm a stud.
POS Industries
08-12-2011, 03:16 PM
Great, now you guys have given me yet another way to be drunk with power.

Congratulations.
Bells
08-12-2011, 04:42 PM
Nega Rep in NPF can also be called Tsundere Rep...
rpgdemon
08-14-2011, 04:02 PM
As an aside, I kind of want to know what Kyrlo thinks the REP ME icon ought to actually be used for.

To me, it seems that he thinks it's an icon going, 'NEGAREP ME KRYLO!".
A Zarkin' Frood
08-14-2011, 04:27 PM
The "rep me" tag was always meant to have that effect.

Mission accomplished.

EDIT: Unrelated: I'm disappointed the Dicks tag never got implemented.
The SSB Intern
08-14-2011, 05:29 PM
Nega Rep in NPF can also be called Tsundere Rep...
For that to work, every green rep would have to end with "But it's not like I like you or anything, got it!?"
Bells
08-14-2011, 05:34 PM
For that to work, every green rep would have to end with "But it's not like I like you or anything, got it!?"

which is exactly what i got written on the Rep i just got for this thread... and the negative rep i got right before it from the same person.
CABAL49
08-14-2011, 07:06 PM
Great, now you guys have given me yet another way to be drunk with power.

Congratulations.

Can't we just get drunk with other things?
synkr0nized
08-14-2011, 07:37 PM
no
Nique
08-14-2011, 10:30 PM
By the way - How far back do our rep posts go? I noticed that I'm missing some comments from like 6, 7 years ago.
Flarecobra
08-14-2011, 10:47 PM
Probably hit the maximum displayed number.
synkr0nized
08-15-2011, 05:47 AM
By the way - How far back do our rep posts go? I noticed that I'm missing some comments from like 6, 7 years ago.

You can only see a certain number* when you are in your CP looking at what people have rep'd you for, if that's what you are asking. This number was increased from the original value, but it will still not show all of them for folks with a significant amount of gems/rep points.

* I don't recall what this number is, but whatever. Count how many you see in your profile and there it is.
Michael Morris
08-16-2011, 08:12 PM
vBulletin stores rep as a 32 bit signed integer. If you got 1 neg rep every second it would take 70 years for you to hit overflow. And when you hit the max MySQL will just refuse to increment the value any further.

Barring any setting changes or plug ins reputation has no effect on ban status on a default vBulletin install.