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Back to nergers...
A chart showing the effect of the top 30 nergers:
Effectively, 5 people produce over 95% of the nergs on the forum and skew everyone's reputation score. The left axis shows the sum of negative reputation score given, and the bottom axis, each point represents a single user. One individual has given just under 18,000 negative reputation points.
For the entire other ~35,000 members, nergs are not abused and would be a reasonable tool for the classifieds were the effect of the top 5 nergers removed from the equation.
So I'm seriously considering removing all nergs ever created by the top 5 nergers, and then just silently making it so that the reputation for those 5 users is only ever positive. Doing so would leave some value in the reputation system for those using classifieds.