I have a question folks. This guy kenpo (
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), is like the third or fourth new member in the last week or two that I see has negative rep right from the start.
To stick with the example at hand and I hope kenpo doesn't mind: I've looked through his first posts here which all came today and that is quite a lot, which were all not all that meaningful and some of which were in comparatively bad English (again, sorry kenpo; maybe you should check your spelling more carefully).
My question is: If one or all of the points above disturb you, why don't you drop him a PM or address it in one of his threads instead of bad-repping him? Now I know I have bashed on newbies myself for asking dumb questions or posting useless stuff or spamming, but I have not bad-repped them. Is it because they can't retaliate with the rep power of a more experienced member? I just don't think it's a nice thing to start of with a red dot next to your name. I don't know who did the bad-repping in this case or the others I recently noticed nand I don't want to know. But maybe it's a little unfair to these guys. Remember your first posts here. Were they all that great? Were they written in the same style you would write them today? I know mine weren't and I'm really glad we didn't have this rep point system back then.
I don't know if y'all agree with me, but I'd like to see a "softer" approach to new members' first posts. :2 cents:
To stick with the example at hand and I hope kenpo doesn't mind: I've looked through his first posts here which all came today and that is quite a lot, which were all not all that meaningful and some of which were in comparatively bad English (again, sorry kenpo; maybe you should check your spelling more carefully).
My question is: If one or all of the points above disturb you, why don't you drop him a PM or address it in one of his threads instead of bad-repping him? Now I know I have bashed on newbies myself for asking dumb questions or posting useless stuff or spamming, but I have not bad-repped them. Is it because they can't retaliate with the rep power of a more experienced member? I just don't think it's a nice thing to start of with a red dot next to your name. I don't know who did the bad-repping in this case or the others I recently noticed nand I don't want to know. But maybe it's a little unfair to these guys. Remember your first posts here. Were they all that great? Were they written in the same style you would write them today? I know mine weren't and I'm really glad we didn't have this rep point system back then.
I don't know if y'all agree with me, but I'd like to see a "softer" approach to new members' first posts. :2 cents:
