[Cory]

Why would you give rep as a prize? That totally defeats the purpose of the reputation system.

It was created to lead users to the people that generally know what they're talking about and post good, informative, helpful information, not to give to people because they win contests or something...

Secondly, rep wasn't invented so everyone could strive to attain as much as possible. If you're posting things just to get positive reputation, or trying to get friends to give it to you, win a contest, etc, you probably don't deserve it.

$0.02

Cory