Originally posted here by ZeroOne
May I add that negging won't stop because otherwise you'll very soon get that ranting message about your AP-assignments not being in balance and how they stop counting if you don't neg somebody.

About AP's in some forums like Cosmos and Jokes... People shouldn't earn AntiPoints in those but they should be punishable if they post some meaningless s**t. So my idea is to make positives not count in them but negatives to do count. Positives could only bring the post AP meter back to middle if someone wrongly negged it and some other person wanted to correct it. What do you think?
Do you see where the two parts of your post are going to be a problem? Having to even your points, and having a forum where you can only give negs...I see a bit of a potential problem here. What it's going to amount to is posting suicide to post in Cosmos or Jokes or GCC or wherever they implement this idea, at least IMO. Also, there is something distinctly unfair in giving people the chance to *only* earn negs in certain forums. If you're going to take away the chance to give greenies, negs need to be cut out too. However...I know that I have given out negs for Jokes before...you can call me uptight or whatever (people who know me well will tell you the opposite ) but there are jokes in there that DO NOT belong on a forum of people of all ethnic make ups, both sexes, and also a place that people read at work. How many of us have seen posts in the joke forum that run something along the lines of "#%@#$%@#$% Why the hell didn't you warn me not to open this at work!?" And how many of us have seen blatantly racist jokes? And how many of us remember the infamous chick blowing a bubble pic that some moron posted like 3 different times cause it kept going suicidal? These things need to be able to be negged, but you can't give someone the opportunity to neg, and not the opportunity to give greenies too.

And Christina...Thanks.