I would like to start this post off by saying that I am sick of the *******s who don't know how to use negative antipoints. I have seen many cases of people who don't know how to use negative antipoints. Just recently Linuxguy99 made a post on the general chat that simply said I like linux. Because he made this post some people gave him negative antipoints and posted things like "this article is ridiculous". I'm sick of *******s online like that, first of all he posted this on the general chat area, thus the name general chat, also why the hell does it matter to them if someone says that they like linux. I have seen some posts where people have just quit AO just because of some of the negative points that they get for no reason at all. I've seen a post where a guy was from France and someone gave him a negative antipoint saying f*** the french. I myself have gotten neg's for things like posting my opinion on Cosmos, asking questions on the Newbie Security Forum, helping people with questions on various forums, and random negatives for no reason. I know that almost everyone has gotten a negative antipoint for some of the reasons that I have listed. Why? because some ******* had a bad day and feels like giving you a negative antipoint because he has the power to do it and make someone else mad. What's even worse is that most of the time when you ask these *******s about giving you the negative antipoint they won't even reply because 1. They didn't have a reason to give you negative antipoints to begin with and 2. They are afraid that you will try to get them back for them being a dumbass. So for all of you *******s that are reading this or to anyone who is new to this site and don't know how to use antipoints correctly here is a 10 commandments to negative antipoints that I hope will help you with knowing how to use negative antipoints.


1. Don't give someone a negative antipoint because you disagree with what they are saying, only if they are saying something way out of line should you give them negative antipoints. (ex. I hate Jews.) Very Rarely though does someone say something as out of line as that at this site because it is mostly full of people talking about computer problems and such.

2. Don't give someone a negative antipoint because they accidentally posted on the wrong forum. If they did then you can use your time to tell them to change to the right forum instead of using your time giving them negative antipoints.

3. I’m sick of seeing people get negative antipoints in the Cosmos. Even the moderator has recently made a sticky saying to ban antipoints altogether in that forum.

4. Don’t give out negative’s to people asking simple questions about their computers. I am so fed up with people giving out negatives to people asking simple questions, especially if it’s on the Newbie Security Questions forum. I have seen so many people not ask questions about things just because they are afraid.

5. I have actually gotten and seen other people get negative’s even when all they did is answer a question that someone asked. Anyone who does this needs to be kicked off AO completely because it does no good to give someone something bad for doing something good. Instead of you wasting time doing that why don’t you use your time figuring out what the problem is and then help another person out.

6. The worst of all is when I or someone I know gets a negative with a ridiculous comment that was given out by a complete dickhead. I have gotten comments like “moron.” Or just a pic of a smiley frowning. First of all anyone who does this is completely stupid. If your going to give out a negative then you should at least take the time to explain why you gave it out.

7. I know that there are circumstances where you should give people negative antipoints. One of those circumstances is when someone asks how to become a cracker or to break into something. If someone does this then feel free to give them negative antipoints.

8. If someone asks questions without even looking then you should give them negative antipoints because AO wasn’t made as a fast way where you can just ask questions without even looking yourself. You shouldn’t get others to do work for you, that’s not the purpose of the Questions forums. I hate it when I see people who will just ask where can I find this or where can I find that. Look yourself first because most likely you can find it on Google after a search or two.

9. As I said before, if you see someone saying something completely outrageous on AO that doesn’t need to be said (ex. I f***ed your momma last night). Then you should give them negatives and feel free to make fun of them too.

10. If you see someone ask a question that has been asked a million times on AO and could be easily found by searching the forum (ex. Where can I download linux?) then you should give them negatives or if your nice just tell them to search the site.


Whew, it feels much better that I’ve gotten that off of my chest. If this stops one person from wrongly distributing negative antipoints then I will feel that taking my time to write this was worth it. After I cool down a little bit then I might edit this post to be a little bit nicer but for now I feel that this shows my anger towards people who use the antipoint system wrongly. That’s all I have to say for this matter.