I wouldn't worry about the number too much. When someone posts, I look at the post itself (or set of posts in a topic) not the rep number since I know there is an ongoing problem. I've seen members with high post numbers tied to their names that probably wouldn't pass a inductive reasoning class let alone a logic class with the sort of justification arguments given.

Behave properly and follow the forum rules, and your rep really should be the least of your worries. That's what I say.

Would be better to stay and not to care about the rep. The only people that will be happy when you leave are the anonymous down-reppers.

I don’t much like the standard and frankly lazy ‘toughen up’ speech (actually it’s not much of a speech, that’s pretty much it), but an anonymous person who ultimately has no impact on your web life should not be able to hurt you with such little effort. At the end of the day we’re not talking about abusive messages, spam, or a stalked Facebook page, but a single click of the mouse. A family pet could manage that.

lol. I'd downrep even if it wasn't anonymous, because I simply don't always have time to explain why I disagree with something that much.

That said though, I probably give out MORE upvotes, because I frequently see more of those posts than ones I'd downrep.

The losers doing this are so stupid they don't even recognize a genuine challenge when they're called on to put up or shut up. I've challenged them several times to find my posts and downrep them all, there really aren't that many, it should be doable, yet nothing. Nada. Pussies are too afraid to go look for and find an easily unique screen name like OldFatGuy and downrep them.

So I think it's just coincidence that some of these posters are going downhill on rep. I don't think these assholes are smart enough to target anyone specifically.

I've gone through the downrepping thing some months ago, best thing to do?

Not caring, Licurg is a master at it by the way.

So if you leave they win, lay low for a while if you want, because not caring doesn't mean that you won't get a little frustrated when you log back in and see a post of you saying "good morning" or something getting downrepped.

In your case, avoid the gifting threads for a good while, focus on the games you already have, and have fun.

There... you win.

Well yeah but in his case it's ridiculous. He keeps adopting children and then not caring enough to feed them. Shit, he must be running out of room in the crawlspace under his house to bury the poor little bastards!

You just said it, poor little bastards...

"You'll be in a better place" they said.. "You'll be loved by your knew family" they said...

That reminds me of feeding my dogs, they're starting to hunt any bird stupid enough to go down to their water bowel and "bathe".

Maybe I should join the OP, I'm about to lose my 3rd star. :O Man that's down 26 in less than a week and I didn't even make fun of a single dead movie critic the whole week.

It is a strange world indeed.

Speaking of that, where do the stripped stars go? Just so long as it gets a good home I'm happy. :D

I upvote specific posters whenever I see a post of theirs, mostly because the posts actually useful and awesome, but sometimes for no reason other than them being present on the forum. If made non-anonymous, it would look like stalking, so I wouldn't be doing that. Instead, I'd just create a metric ton of accounts (investing real money into it, if necessary) to randomly downrep the whiners who made it non-anonymous until they came to their senses. Because fuck hugboxes and fuck cliqueism.

And a very Merry Christmas to you too Santa! :D