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So it's true to the cartoon?

But, Lower the Rep is Two! Two! Two games in one!

You can participate by posting in it... or by giving people there negative reputation.

The game is what you make of it. Think of it as the ShamWoW! of forum games.

If you insist... http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=185764

I'll have to look for a forum game dedicated to "boosting" negative reputation. If there's not one already, I might just start one.

Ethanol (i.e., alcohol)

Still remember the first time I ever heard of an ethanol I.V. I was an Army lab tech, and we kept periodically getting orders for blood alcohol tests on an inpatient, and it wasn't 0. We couldn't figure out what was going on... did he have a buddy sneaking booze into his hospital room or something? Finally, we heard that he was on an alcohol I.V., and they were just monitoring the dosage in his system like with a lot of drugs.

In your first example, it appeared that the rest of your group was not particularly sympathetic to your argument. If the rest of the group did agree with you, the group leader certainly could (and, IMO, should) eject the disruptive player. And, if the disruptive player happens to be the group leader, everyone else can quit the team and reform the group without him.

In your second example, it occurred in a "public" place in-game. The most other players can do is ignore the offenders; the "host" in this case is represented by the GMs, and so a report and petition would be necessary to get them to even review the case to see if consequences (effectively "asking him to leave") is warranted.

I agree with your reactions, and would probably share them/ support you under the circumstances. However, as you state, "my right to swing my fist ends at your nose;" the other player DOES have the right to be a jerk, his friends DO have the right to tell me to "lighten up," and I do NOT have the right to force them to play my way. I can only modify my own play style (whether that's to ignore, petition, avoid, etc.) in response, until and unless the "host" (group leader, SG leader, or GM) asks (or more likely forces) one of us to leave.

Well, duh. It's a company that sells meat.

Hot dogs. Armour hot dogs. What kind of kids love Armour hot dogs?

Heh. I only visited London once, for a long weekend (stationed in Germany in the late 80s, on a 4-day pass). If someone had corrected me like that, I probably would have thanked him or her. I still have problems with "Worcestershire".

I also recall the desire to ask some young women there for directions. Out of politeness, I would of course have introduced myself.

Tell me, what kind of reaction would I have gotten with "hi, I'm Randy, can you help me?"

Report and petition. Make sure you explicitly mention child pornography. I'm guessing he's probably just a liar going for shock value, but maybe the FBI can let him know that such things are not funny.

You should have mentioned that he was an "idi0t" because his head exploded from a comment made on the internet.

Team full of losers. Before exiting the team, I probably would have checked to see if they were in Supergroups (or quite possibly the same one). If they shared a SG, and to be honest if I was in a bad mood myself (quite likely after a conversation like that), I might ask in some global or another if kiddie porn was common in that SG.

Honestly, depends on how explicit their conversation was. You don't necessarily need to "lighten up", and you're perfectly within your rights to indicate that you find a subject distasteful or disturbing and ask that things be toned down. If they choose not to, though, they shouldn't be required to... you may need to put them on ignore, or otherwise remove yourself from the conversation, just as in a "real life" conversation you might feel the need to walk away.

Why the hate in adding to rep? I subtracted from it, in the hopes that one day his rep will be low enough that he feels he can reactivate it.

Okay, this is gonna sound really cheap, but... if you occasionally post that you're getting reputation hits, you'll probably get people to award you rep to "balance it out". Just make sure you don't complain too much, or other people might give you more hits for being a complainer.

Alternatively, ignore it... as far as I know, Rep doesn't mean anything.

That seems a little extreme.

How about just the AE building. And the one in Atlas, and Talos, and Cap, and every other zone?

If you don't want people's opinions, you should probably refrain from asking questions in a forum to which others are allowed to post.