With due apologies: Honestly yes I do care about reps. You can see in most of my threads I have ask rep if they like it. But I never forced anyone to add rep me Is there anyway one could force? If they likes my threads they will add rep or if they don't like it they will not add reps.
And for - reps which I get i thinks they are my mistakes. But in EK some people add - reps for people just for jealous, angry etc. So that is the bad side of rep system.
I saw most of people complaining about this rep system. They don't like it. Well it is correct but you can't say it is useless. Just imagine if there isn't any reputation system in EK then most of people will not post valuable threads Are you saying before the advent of reputation system there weren't any good posts - on the contrary at that time Elakiri wasn't full of 18+ and hot hot stuff. In other forum sites which don't have a reputation system we can't see any valuable threads mostly. (I don't say there isn't but not everytime) Just google them and you can see about that. So having a reputation system is a good idea I thinks. And it is helps us to know about members. If a member have good reps points then we can say he/she is a good member. If not we know that he/she is not a good member. So it is helps us to identify it.
People like aragon, migara they always post valuable threads and we all enjoying them even if we didn't post a comment. Actually they dedicate most of their time for it. So how can we pay them for that, adding rep because they deserve it even if they didn't ask reps. So I don't see any wrongs with that.
Hope this will help you.
Hayao