Originally Posted by SEA_Tigger
I must say the negatives really hammer your rating. Got my first one for mispelling the name of the national Australian airline ( anonymous, of course, so I can't go write SecState and demand we pull out of ANZUS

) and even with a positive after it, I dropped five full points.
Gee, if people lost reputation for each mis-spelling, I'd be in real trouble

. Dinging for that is bad form. Over on the QF forum we see the "u" added all the time. So much so that it hardly gets noted any more.
I have found that more than half the people who have given me a positive had been "the grey brigade" and hence no points

.