Reputation

I don't know if this has been asked, but how does the reputation system...

lol OHHHHHHH!!! that does make since!!!!sorry I had a blonde moment...

It's okay. Don't worry about it.

Well, the guys with below 1K posts must be allowed to mark their own posts as bad.

hehehehe i know I have made some bad posts!

I was going to say it's because you're banned but someone beat me to it with a, uhm, "true" explanation.

(Note to everyone else: Don't let ltl know the real reason).

now I am doubting whether or not everyone else was just messing with me!

I've somehow managed to amass 3,458 rep points in four hits

Either I'm VERY good (I am, of course, but I haven't been around long enough for y'all to find that out yet), or hypography rep points have suffered the same sort of inflation as the Zimbabwe dollar since this thread was made. Not that I mind - praise gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

My question, as a n00b of only 4 days standing, is about the etiquette. Do I PM a "thank you" to my benefactors, or are their PM boxes so full of important things that they'd see it as an irritating waste of time?

There are no hard and fast rules or expectations about this that I am aware of. I recommend you follow your instincts. I think everyone likes to be appreciated, whether it's in the form of reputation given for posts, or thanks given for reputation points.

For me, it's only been on occasion that I either offered or received private thank yous for reputation given. But ultimately, I think you should do what is in your nature.

The most important thing is to actually use the rep system so that you hand out both positive and negative reputations when you think it is fitting. Don't expect people to thank you for positive rep (they may not even notice at first) but negative rep can cause feedback. Don't be afraid to give negative rep though, it is not a punishment, only a personal opinion of a post.