You know, as vapid as most of my posts are most of them get positive rep. In fact, the more vapid my posts are the more rep I get for them.

There does need to be a serious penalty for flagging someone with negative rep that was unwarranted under forum guidlines. Two of my kinnies were pretty upset the other night in vent chat over negative rep they had received for what I took as two very well written posts. As far as I could tell the only thing I could find in common was that both posts were highly critical of Turbine PvMP, but I can't really get into the PvMP arguments, I just don't follow that community very well, not my cup of tea. It does seem to get heated though.

There should be a penalty for negative reping someone just because you don't agree with them. I think my two kinnies will be leaving the game soon. They're already upset with the game and this has irritated them considerably more. This was their only outlet for venting... other than in vent... where I have to listen to it.

But still, they are paying customers, soon to be "were" paying customers. Systems like this are fine on free sites, but when you're giving one paying customer the ability to harass another paying customer what exactly are you trying to accomplish, other than silence and laziness? Should Turbine consider letting go any community related staff now that this is in place? Should they move those resources over to more development. Are they needed any more really with an autopilot at the helm? What prevents these mob appointed "Rep"resentatives from turning into a squad of brown shirted goose stepping Eric Eichman Cartman hallway monitors? Has it already happened? Do they even have that right when they pay the same fee to use the forums as everyone else? Turbine started this on DDO right, isn't it a free to play game, but don't we all pay a fee to be here on the Lotro forums? A bit different isn't that?

Sure, when Turdram shows up crackin' wise its negative rep time, but when you're abusing it against people you simply don't agree with, there needs to be a punishment for that.

Who watches the Watchmen?