"I never saw anything particularly bad out of him" -- I did... it was mostly early on... and it wasn't a language problem, but a really bad surly attitude... demanding, like he was entitled to the answers. The last few I've seen from him have softened up some... so maybe it was a language barrier... but still...

Now I'm curious... when you give rep, your own repping power is used... so if good rep adds, and negative reps subtracts... if someone has neg rep, and they give neg rep... is it a double negative and turn into a positive? 8 - -4 = 12 .... like that?

-tg