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Fordim Hedgethistle · 10-17-2004, 10:50 AM

I am dreadfully remiss in giving out rep, I'm sad to say, particularly given how fortunate I have been in attracting rep from others. I tend to go long periods without repping anything, and then going on something of a binge -- such an approach tends to make any kind of systematic method impossible.

I seem to operate on a 'larger scale' than most. If there is a particular thread that I have found engaging I go through it and rep everyone who has contributed to the thread (well, almost everyone. . .I have never given negative rep, I just don't reward posts I don't like, nor do I respond to them in discussion).

Every once in a while there will be a post that takes my breath away and I will be moved to give rep beyond the confines of any binge. This rarely happens in the RPG forums however, where I find repping people to be difficult, as I believe, like Child that the contribution of a poster to a RPG is made over a series of posts rather than any one. I usually wait until the game is well advanced and then go back to rep a 'representative' post.

I will admit, as well, that there are several people on the Downs who I routinely rep every time I have "spread enough around" simply because I find their contributions to be so wonderful and widespread that I want to acknowledge and thank them.

One Last Note: I sincerely wish that people who handed out negative rep would leave comments. I've never once had an explanatory note for negative rep, so how am I to work to improve my posting. . .????

10-17-2004, 10:50 AM	#185
Fordim Hedgethistle Gibbering Gibbet Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Beyond cloud nine Posts: 1,844	I am dreadfully remiss in giving out rep, I'm sad to say, particularly given how fortunate I have been in attracting rep from others. I tend to go long periods without repping anything, and then going on something of a binge -- such an approach tends to make any kind of systematic method impossible. I seem to operate on a 'larger scale' than most. If there is a particular thread that I have found engaging I go through it and rep everyone who has contributed to the thread (well, almost everyone. . .I have never given negative rep, I just don't reward posts I don't like, nor do I respond to them in discussion). Every once in a while there will be a post that takes my breath away and I will be moved to give rep beyond the confines of any binge. This rarely happens in the RPG forums however, where I find repping people to be difficult, as I believe, like Child that the contribution of a poster to a RPG is made over a series of posts rather than any one. I usually wait until the game is well advanced and then go back to rep a 'representative' post. I will admit, as well, that there are several people on the Downs who I routinely rep every time I have "spread enough around" simply because I find their contributions to be so wonderful and widespread that I want to acknowledge and thank them. One Last Note: I sincerely wish that people who handed out negative rep would leave comments. I've never once had an explanatory note for negative rep, so how am I to work to improve my posting. . .???? __________________ Scribbling scrabbling.