Rep system of forums is a bad thing. That's because there are people who misunderstood the real meaning and why you have to put a bad or good vote about someone. It is done just for flaming, luckily, I'm following just few italians forum too, and I have to say it is not so much common for us having something like that.

I wrote luckily because I'm not a person who like to hide behind fake compliments to photos, or general opinions, so for a big part of users I'm not so nice and kindly (it's my big mouth, I know =P)