[Kevin Sevcik]

A random thought, but it just occured to me that the rep system is turning out like the levelling system in a final fantasy game. Dave and others have levelled up so much that the difference between them and the level 1 people is just silly.

So, I'll repeat one idea here and add another. First, I think it'd be useful to have rep points decay over time. This would still allow people to benefit from posts in the past, but would also encourage people to continue to post occasionally to keep their rep up. I think it's fair, because you kind of need to stay current with things to provide useful information anyways.

I suppose the other option is to change the math of the rep system so it's more like a logarithmic curve. Your rep grows linearly at the beginning, and then as you get more and more rep, additional rep adds less and less.
You'd still effectively have really large reps, but it'd be scaled down.