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Will heavy downvotes on your questions negatively impact your reputation?

Aug 21, 2011 2:14 AM

Some deals users have their questions and comments downvoted well into negative territory but they still have 100 reputation. Will the reputation system take that into account at some point or is any activity good activity as far as reputation is concerned? Or perhaps deals activity outweighs any community shenanigans?

prosperouscheat prosperouscheat

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I am curious about this too. Hope we find out.

pickypickypicky pickypickypicky
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Aww I liked my shenanigans tag :(

prosperouscheat prosperouscheat
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sometimes there isn't even anything wrong with a comment, but everyone just jumps in on the bandwagon

jamesbottomtooth jamesbottomtooth
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Yes.

shawnmiller shawnmiller
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@jamesbottomtooth: That's because they are sheep bahhhhhhh

iggz iggz
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Haters will Hate....

hobbitss hobbitss
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@hobbitss: See the trick is to down-vote your own question/answer first if you think that it will be down-voted. Then you are actually either helping your rep or at least neutralizing it.

iggz iggz
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Thanks guys, went up a whole percent!

iggz iggz

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