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Ryan M. Ryan M. is offline
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Re: Welcome the Newbies

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Originally Posted by teamtestbot
What is this "rep" business
The green, gray, or red dots on the right side of the bar along the top of each post give you an idea about how, um, insightful (for a lack of a better word) each person is.

You can give a person rep on a post you like by clicking the scale icon () which is on the right side of the post. (near the rep images) You can see the rep you've received by going to your user cp.

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does it affect your account/forum operation at all?
No.

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Or is it some sort of social benchmark, like "popularity" at schools? I see alot of posts about "giving" positive and negative reputations which makes me suspicious about the actual nature of it.
The fact that the rep(utation) system is fairly opinionated causes all the discussions about it. A lot of it is a popularity contest, but you also have to remember that the people who are popular here are almost always the ones who are helpful.

Good question.
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