just because some one is a newbie and post in the wrong spot or post some thing you dont agree with or like dosent meen you should neg piont them to death send them a critical message telling them how you feel
This has been addressed over and over and over though. I agree and I think most of the community agrees.

Should newbies RTFM- yes. Should they search the threads to see if the question has already been answered (and answered, and answered)- yes.

By the same token, should addicts and seniors with 20, 30 and more AP's per hit be negging newbies (or anyone else) for something as silly as posting in the wrong forum- no. Should people be negging threads in Cosmos which is designed purely for opinion in the first place- no.

But, at its root the AP system is still driven by humans. Even if 90% of us follow the guidelines- written and unwritten- there will still be the 10% who will post stupid-ass threads in stupid-ass places and there will be those who will neg for apparently no reason.

I for one believe that showing the names with the AP assignments will help to decrease the completely useless negs, but maybe I am wrong. In the end- do you really fu*king care? It is a small square under your name. You aren't being paid based on the number of green squares you have.

Focus on contributing what you can and posting the highest quality posts you can and forget about the stupid AP's.

Just my $.05