If you dislike something that someone posts, why not have it out in the open? It's a forum, after all.
Because sometimes you want to keep it between you and the person whose comment you disliked and a PM might seem too ponderous. If you get a PM in response to your neg rep then you can write a reasoned, longer reply - even if that is then ignored by the person who was so upset by your neg rep that they PMd you. Not that that has recently happened to me, of course.
Because sometimes you want to keep it between you and the person whose comment you disliked and a PM might seem too ponderous. If you get a PM in response to your neg rep then you can write a reasoned, longer reply - even if that is then ignored by the person who was so upset by your neg rep that they PMd you. Not that that has recently happened to me, of course.