Scores?

I have a question about SCORES on my Profile page. How are we Scored and by Whom?. I noticed I have a -1, Is this good or bad? I have also noticed other posters SCORES, and some of those posters have High SCORES and they use profanity and seem to try to "bait" people into an  argument. Am I over thinking this? The majority of my posts I feel are to help and never to hurt, should I just sit back and be quiet?
 

For a brief amount of time a few years back, we were allowed to rate each others posts.  Predictably, it did not go well and that feature was disabled. Don't sweat the -1, nobody pays attention to those scores anyway.   

Thank You Buffet buster , This was the first I noticed and couldnt find the answer.
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Thanks again Karl.
 

Thanks for the offer.  There sure are a lot of great eats in that area of the country.

Thanks for posting this Uncle Groucho and for the answer buffetbuster.
 
I had seen this on my profile (+2) and couldn't find anything about it anywhere in my searches.