Not if he keeps that up.
Specifics? When, who, and where? I've been here for over 5 years and I don't recall anything like this happening on this site.
No, it's not. Negative reputation is a tool that(apart from giving new users a sense of somewhat who are trolls, etc) gives incentive for proper behaviour. We have positive an negative incentive. Until recently, our negative incentive consisted only of warnings and suspensions.
A user should only get negative reputation for inappropriate posting behaviour such as trolling, flaming, or otherwise breaking the rules.
Now, politics(and religion, when we had a section for that) tend to get heated when not approached properly. Why would we want people who have a demonstrated tendancy to already have bad posting behaviour posting in a forum that easily tends toward such behaviour?
It isn not descrimination. Posting in politics(or on the forum at all, for that matter) is a privilege, not a right. The reputation restriction on the politics section not only lends to more civil discussions, but it makes less work for the moderators.
If you don't like our extremely fair system of moderation(and user-based incentives), then you don't have to post here. There's surely an x somewhere on your screen to close this tab.
If you think we're unfair, you should check out the recent antics of the CARM staff.
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At least it didn't affect your rep points!