I don't anyone is actually concerned about being given negative rep, more that we're laughing at how pathetic it is. I think I've only done it once and that was a reply to Edge (who had left a cute message for me about child abuse or something similarly cerebral)
Now you and i both know that's not true - I neg reppedyou last week and got an automated message saying i should be ashamed of myself and you hoped my house sprouted wings and ended up flying across the UK finally crashing into the Irish Sea. Found it quite funny if I'm honest.
Yep, they pretend to be "Cool" but begging for positive Rep and doling out Neg is not obsessive at all, no sir.
It's not the sending/receiving rep I find funny. It's the fact that they both repped the same post days after I posted it. Coincidence? I think not.
Worried about receiving negative rep on a football forum? Angered that other people might be sending private messages about you? Well why not whinge and cry about it every chance you get.
I seem to remember a thread called "The Persecution of Medro Pendes". It was all post-modern, self-effacing parody right enough and not a ****wit gurning like a toddler