I agree with the original post,
and it doesn't take long to find an example.
can anyone tell me what the guy in this thread did to get a red rep bar?
http://www.computerforums.org/showthread.php?p=895807#post895807
he's made two posts, none of them spam, all in the correct forums.
yet he's got negative rep.
the original poster is completely correct, negative rep is being given out with no real cause or justification to new people.