Yes some are happy to take rep but dont dish it out. Sad really as i rep everybody that reps me as its nice to be nice but somebody always has to rock the boat. They should get a life. Its only a website.
CATARACT, you and I have a basic difference of outlook about rep.
When I give +rep, it is just that - a gift. I never expect reciprocity or seek to obligate the recipient in any way. How can I? Once I've given it, it's out of my hands. It's a
gift, not a loan or a promissory.
I see +rep as a way of saying "awesome post", something way above&beyond a mere "like". I do not see it as a sort of trading card or favor that needs counting and returning. Frankly, I see viewing rep that way as corrosive to (what I perceive as) the spirit of the thing.
It's OK for you to want some rep from me. It is not OK for you to expect it as part of a tit-for-tat transaction.
I agree that it's nice to be nice. I like being nice. However I would say it is NOT nice to spin a divergent opinion about +rep as a failure of decency on my part.
If you can make a solid case that +rep obligates the recipient, by all means expound (but perhaps on a different thread, like one of those that you started). Until then, I find your efforts at extorting or blatantly soliciting +rep to be distasteful. And I find your insinuation/statement that I owe you rep because you repped me to be plainly offensive. cn