why don't we make them gain bad reputation or infamy points? This way, new people can also see how notorious someone is. Also, make people gain negative reputation through doing fearful actions during a TO or using black markets?
Because we don't
have bad reputation or infamy points.
This has been discussed several times, and it hasn't exactly been rejected, I don't think, but it's not on our list of top priorities. Part of the problem is figuring out how to rebalance the stats if we add a third that specifically handles the negative side.