Sir, I never saw you playing JJ2. What's your alias in the game?

He has a bad computer, so he can't really play JJ2 online.

This, yes.

Such a bad one?

Have you ever seen JJ2 on 1 fps? I see it usually after joining a server. My record was about 20 fps (empty server, low detail, 8-bit mode, 320x200, etc. - but it's impossible to play like that anyway).

I daresay that sounds like a device that shouldn't be called a computer at all.

Next your be telling us he's on win95.

well maybe he tried to make his win95 computer faster by installing vista

If I remember correctly, he has XP.

It's 2000, some time ago (maybe a year) I upgraded it from 98. For some reason everything started to work even slower then... Anyway, this is not a thread about my computer (or as my friends used to call it: "toaster", in the best case "calculator"), get back on topic.

I agree with EvilMike 100%. The only form of regulation I'd add personally is disabling posting new threads for people with negative reputation. They could still post fine, just unable to start any new threads.

I also think that this thread causes more trouble than the system itself, and if you were to (temporarily) close this thread, the problems would go away instantly.

Torkell's idea about "bonuses for high rep and penalties for low rep" was half of the reasons I even started this whole thing. While as for now reputation is indeed, as EvilMike says, in a way just a "funny" feature, if it'd have any effect on "serious" features (such as posting or creating new threads) it would suck. If this number means nothing, I don't want it to decide about my privileges.

Edit: Also, a disablity to start new threads is just another reason to off-topic in the existing ones. You can already sometimes see newcomers saying that "I'm just posting here because it didn't let me create a new thread". The negrepped people could do just the same but all the time. It's not a solution.

The reputation feature isn't 1:1 at all... People might negrep others out of spite. Thus any form of penalty for low rep is a horribly messed up idea.

Agreed. This has become a thread of delusion and I'm closing it. For specific complaints about reputation, well, you can PM an admin or open a new thread if it's really specific and not just general speculating and complaining.