What's to improve,
Fordim?! If you got negative reputation points, I can only imagine that someone was disagreeing with your point of view - not necessarily the best reason to rate someone down; the negative box says "I disapprove", not "I disagree".
I do try to give rep whenever I read a good post, whether it be RPG or a Books discussion. Sometimes I can't, since there are people who write such good posts so frequently that I can't seem to spread fast enough to keep up with them. I'm fortunate to be on an RPG with excellent posting quality, so I have no problem giving points for individual posts there. I think it's a problem that RPGs are not as widely read as the discussion threads, and I know I can keep up with only the ones I write in, for the most part.
On the whole, I find that I give points more often than I receive them - isn't that called "blessed" in the Bible?
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth..
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