On thestudentroom.co.uk and other forums there are reputation systems in which users give points to other users for good or bad posts. Neg rep is when a person receives negative reputation, in contrast to positive reputation.
The
people most likely to get 'negged' are trolls, general idiots, and
people with opinions that others do not agree with, though some
people will neg others just for the hell of it.
Negative reputation deducts points from the recipient's total reputation points shown by little
green or red gems. How much rep you have decides how much rep power you have, which denotes how many points will be deducted from the recipient's power when you neg rep them. The more rep, the more power.
Some
people believe that these gems represent how big their e-peni is, this however is not true -post count does.
New TSR
user: Someone gave me neg rep :'(
TSR user: Shut the fuck up you whiney
little bitch. I have so much positive rep! My E-Penis is
HUGE!
New TSR user: *negs*
TSR user: HAH your neg is worth nothing.