Do you have EXACT stats to back that statement up, like, names and screenshots, or are you just shooting from the hip because it "feels" that way to you?
I mean, imo it's totally ok to be shooting from the hip, it's a free country and a very open forum, but then if that is the case, you should be honest enough to admit it.
Are you trying to say that by giving out tons of negs, Lefties were being rewarded by fellow lefties for having done this? Of course, the only problem is that no one knows who has been negged, as far as I can tell, unless of course a member discloses that information, amirite??
Or do you have a bird's eye view into the moderation records of USMB? Are you in possession of super-duper secret encoder-ring information that the rest of us mortals don't have? Really?
Because since I have gotten here and barely posted outside of the tavern, the coffee shop and the elections subforum, all I have seen are neg reps coming from Cons, not Libs. But then again, I bet my view of this is every bit as limited as yours.
As usual, she is full of shit
It is the rightwing rep circle jerk that has been repping itself to death while they gang neg new liberal posters. It was this wolf pack that caused the neg rep rules to be changed. If you notice all the liberal posters with their rep turned off, that was a direct result of unrelenting negging from the wolf pack
I've not been here long enough to be able to confirm that, but in spite of a couple of nasty attacks from a couple of nerds in USMB, I have also encountered some Conservatives who are a.) respectful, b.) willling to listen, c.) possess a nice sense of humour and d.) are willing to agree to disagree. They seem to be good people to me, every bit as good as some of the Lefties I have met here.
So, for me, this is not necessarily a RIGHT-LEFT thing.
And I am going to wait for koshergrl to tell me herself what she thinks and feels about this.
I have already made the decision to not give out any more neg reps than absolutely necessary and I will never initiate one, unless the poster is so vilely racist or bigoted about it that I just cannot help myself.
As you just witnessed me do with koshergrl, when I see a rant, or what I
think is a rant, instead of getting mad, I first ask. I mean, simply asking is not against the law and it usually disarms the other side. Now the ball is in koshergrl's court and it's her decision whether to respond or not. She seems incredibly intelligent to me and probably has some interesting thoughts to add about a lot of stuff, so why kill what could maybe become a cordial relationship?
Wait and see.