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Originally Posted by Captain Starfish
Your comments interest me too, because I see the top repped few members and none of them seem to fit the mould of the "whiny little groups on here and they'll just follow each other around like flies on shit + repping each other (to the point they have to 'spread' their reputation) before sliding their ePeen back up their mate because they posted a picture of a fat dog.
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Of course that happens. I can see it myself. I think the rep thing is funny to be honest and should be treated as a bit of a laugh. It could be a tool for rewarding positive contributions Rhino, but there will always be those who reward bad behaviour too. I give rep out rarely - it has to have been a valuable post or made me laugh and with my twisted sense of humour, there are only a few people who make me laugh. In a lot of circumstances I can't give out rep when I want to because I place a high value on the posts of a few people, and I can't rep them as much as I'd like without spreading the rep around to other users. Is that the mentality you don't like? Possibly, and food for thought for me.
The only concern I have is that newbies will confuse a high rep level for a member of high standing and good advice. Because while some of the people with high rep are good people who will give good advice and help out a newbie... Some of them are those who'll just ridicule them (And probably get more good rep for doing it.) As long as the newbies aren't relying on these people alone, it's fine.
In general, I think those who get the mega good rep for the reasons you are concerned about are probably those who get the most negative rep too, so it will pretty much balance out.
