[Aignam]

Sure, most of these arguments sound good in theory, but if you look at the first two pages of the memberlist when sorted by reputation, almost every member is a valued, helpful, respected member of FIRST/ChiefDelphi. Sure, some of your posts might get a "Haha, this deserves a few points.", but this is well made up for when you make one of those amazing posts that earns you reputation from many, many people, and you know it is a truly useful post. Things balance themselves out. I've yet to see someone entirely useless get a quasi-high reputation. It just doesn't happen. Let's put a little more faith in ChiefDelphi-ers to be able to do this for themselves---so far it's working.

As for the idea to show a Reputation / Posts ratio, that might be okay, so long as all posts in Chit-Chat are not included in post count, as that could really hurt a person's reputation. Also, the older members who already have large post counts because they have been posting long before the reputation system was incorporated would be hurt---but, then again, things would balance themselves out.

All in all, I think things are fine.