I still do consider that he directly accused me of "receiving gifts" and indirectly accused me of "not respecting my own rules and lie about them" and he also minimized my challenge / quest / efforts by saying "not a challenge at all" when I had already said I consider it a challenging task. And I considered that all these were uncalled and felt under incites and provocations.
Sure, you may be right, and for sure I may be subjective at times... after all we are all humans and we all do mistakes... what I was pointing though was that I never -repped a post just because I disagreed with it, but because I interpreted it as a personal attack and a "off-topic, rude, inciteful, inflammatory, flaming or unfair" post, and here we come back to what I was saying a few posts back that we all come from different cultures, have different backgrounds, different sensitivity levels and different definitions for what "off-topic, rude, inciteful, inflammatory, flaming or unfair" means.
Personally I don't have a problem with all the negative reputations (when you received a few hundreds of them you get to grow a tougher skin) up to the point I don't really bother even checking them any more, and I think that, on the big scale of time, a missed +rep or -rep here or there doesn't make much differences and I'm probably the best example in this direction... I'm only eight months old or so, yet I already received probably over 500 reputation points, from which over 100 negative ones; yet the positive ones countered the negative one and the general reputation bar is full green.