Remove negative rep? Remove all rep?

How is it an incentive to come back? It doesn't do anything. It serves no purpose other than e-peen enlargement. Of course, the same could be said about post count, but my post count is not determined by what some retard thinks of me.

If there were more people to look up to, more people that posted thought provoking dialogue, rather than accusations and intimidations people would be more likely to want to get their two cents in. This is why discussions outside of the chatterbox and flame forum should be held to the rules and emptied of a good portion of the post disencouraging content.

I could not tell you how many times I have read an interesting opening post and by the time I filtered through all the spam, shit talk and other bullshit, I didn't care to add my thoughts to such intellectually devoid conversations.