Quote Originally Posted by GregJL View Post
Oh, I'm not saying y'all aren't on your game, and I'm not even saying anyone is DELIBERATELY farming rep. I do think that like attracts like, though. I've not seen many cases of "+rep" for posts that the one giving that "+rep" disagreed with, no matter the "tone" of the post. I suspect that there is -rep given just because certain posters don't like other posters, and no matter WHAT is posted, the person will receive -rep from them.
It's a lot easier to +rep someone repeatedly than -rep them...even still, there is a limit of how often you can +rep a particular person. If you give +rep to a single person more than once or twice in a row, it will send you a message that you need to spread it around more.

In other words, it's designed so that it needs participation from many people to increase one person's rep. If the limitations are so severe for +rep, then I would imagine that it would be even more limiting for -rep.