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What is this "rep" business
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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?
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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.
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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.