Each cred transaction should have binary attribute - marking does giving this cred person treat it as "positive cred" or as "negative cred"

Is "-miserable failure" is a positive cred?

The existing usage of positive/negative cred seems to refer to the meanings of the cred.

It would be cool/useful (from IR POV) to give '-miserable failure' cred to negate a 'miserable failure' cred.

ididak, you don't understand. When you give cred - you should select if this "cred transaction" is positive or negative.

Is the cred positive or negative itself - it is another question.

By the way - there could be a solution! I formulate it as a claim related to your comment.

perhaps my comment was not clear enough. i meant the so called positive/negative cred is already overloaded with other usage/meanings if you look at the existing claims. overloading is the keyword.

btw, i agree with the -<cred> solution. a few tagging sites already have experimented with it.

Can you give links to this "few tagging sites"?

http://rateyourmusic.com/wiki/Tags

Just googled: "minus sign" tag negative