Here's my "quick witted" response:
Firstly, you're clearly a master of psychoanalysis. I can only assume this is mainly in reference to the retaliatory negrep you received after negrepping my opinion, and solely mine, in the "Best Game Ever" thread:
In response to my choosing of Halo. Rather than discussing it, or just thinking "Wow, I disagree with that, oh well", you chose to negrep me. That's what I take issue with; your seemingly complete lack of logic in nearly everything you do. For instance, starting an entire thread to bitch about negrep, then having the gall to insinuate I live my life through my rep.
I took some of my precious time to count the amount of "front page" reps on both of our profiles, and the negreps stood at:
Shaw: 16 (of which ONE out of all 16 is from me)
Blonde: 19
Seeing as I post a shitload more than you, my initial thought is that less of my posts, many of which,
are pretty meaningless, are at least equally worthy of negreps as yours.
I guess my main point is that you're making a mountain out of a molehill and sounding like a little bitch about it. Instead of messaging me directly, you look like a coward appealing to the whole to defend your relatively unfounded negrep. I think negreps, for the most part, should be reserved for when someone makes a genuinely shitty post (Like, apparently, my recent one in "bashing lame friends in facebook", which I took a bit of flak for and probably deserved negrep for (but don't think I got any for), rather than in a thread where someone asks my opinion on my favorite game, I post it, and then get negrepped for it.
This board isn't
that negative, most of the time it consists of debates which, unfortunate but given the nature of the internet understandable, aren't exactly a sun shiny support group forum. I'm sorry that I can't find complacency in the kind of life you have made for yourself.