If you have received reputation, you will find the record of it on your Control Panel page below your Subscribed Threads. It will be connected to the post you were repped for. It is helpful if the person giving reputation adds a brief comment and signature or just a signature;otherwise, we have no way of knowing what was useful or who thought so and the latter is just nice to know, IMO.
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She was definitely not referring to you (unless you post under numerous names).
Thanks, marbling. I just wanted to be respectful of the concern.
I didn’t intend to direct my comment toward anyone who was sharing actual insights and information. But sorry if I was too subtle.
Not to worry. All is good.
Roger,
It does not appear one can take reputation away as you stated in your first post. What is your intention? To activate that or did you decide not to?
Also, how do the reputation hits translate to points? And how many points get one to the next square?
And while we are on that, how many posts does one need to get to each level of membership?
^ See post 23.
From personal experience on other boards, rep points lead to people joining “rep clubs” via PM’s and pass rep points back and forth between each other making it appear that they are helpful. If you institute a negative rep system, you end up in high school like cat fights between members and just create more work for your mod’s. I would suggest contacting the administrators of other sites that use rep points to get their opinion on the negative rep system.
^^^Say this same thing happens here. So what?
absweetmarie–say I didn’t like the post you just posted-nothing really wrong, just didn’t like it so I give you a negative report. You get mad, email the mods or maybe PM me with a nasty remark then I email the mods, they are scrambling to find out who is right, who is wrong, digging through reported posts, blah, blah, blah. Then these filter over to public postings either though “so and so gave me a bad rep for no reason” or “well, I don’t care what you say, you will just give me a bad rep anyway”. It degrades the integrity of the boards very quickly and you end up losing valuable members because they don’t put up with crap like that. Yes, we would like to think we are all above that but that isn’t the case, ESPECIALLY since a high number of users ARE in high school. Add positive rep points, not a real issue, but once you allow posters to give negative points, not a good thing at all. The positive rep points will be enough, usually, to show that a poster is “reliable”. Doesn’t always mean that they are the most informed posters either.
There are posters here with whom I don’t agree with, I’m sure there are plenty that don’t agree with me. Doesn’t mean that either of us are less informed but what if that poster that doesn’t agree with you hits you with negative reports frequently? That makes it appear that one poster isn’t “as informed” as others when that just might not be the case.
Basically it’s like trusting that the points actually mean something :D.
Or, say I really like someone’s post- the point she argues, how she states it. And, over time, others like her angle or perspective or wit. Does that make her some “expert?”
This really isn’t like the techie forums. An accumulation of likes is just an accumulation of likes. It’s pretty clear kelsmom deserves dots.
Lol… I think that might be the only thing every parent out here agrees on, that Kelsmom deserves reputation points. Maybe we should just give them all to her and scrap the rest of the system. 
SteveMA: I haven’t yet figured out how to give negative reports, but it appears in any case that the reports are anonymous. I have to assume the moderators have calculated the likelihood of increased infighting and determined it not to be a factor. I have formed opinions about a lot of posters (pro, con and in between) as many, I’m sure, have of me. My opinions of others have evolved and will continue to evolve based on what people say. I can’t imagine being influenced by how many squares anyone has under his or her name. Also, having graduated from high school more than 35 years ago, my days of caring whether I’m popular or not are well behind me (I didn’t much care about popularity when I was teenager, either!). As to the actual high school kids among us, I expect their behavior vis-
It would be more useful, IMO, to have something at the bottom of the post that shows “x people thanked (or liked) this post.” That could serve almost as a pseudo-stickie … here’s a post that has particularly useful information or was particularly well-said. That seems to be more useful than liking posters, which is going to devolve into you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours!
^^^Yeah, well, how about it, Pizzagirl? There’s a virtual grande latte in it for you.
“Venti soy pumpkin chai, please.”
I am not sure how I feel about not knowing what the ceiling is for this system. Maybe ignorance is bliss. I was pretty happy to be at “genius” level in Tetris until I discovered that there were people 70 or so levels above me who had ascended to Tetris Olympus. I “will be famous soon enough.” That will have to be good enough for me today.
I would favor leaving the negative option turned off. If there’s any purpose to this element, it’s to identify people who are actually giving helpful advice.
I also don’t think we need to know the different gradations in advance. It’s more fun to see them as they develop.
I can’t read your posts, Hunt. Your aura is blinding me.
That’s easy for you to say, Hunt. You with your “spectacular aura” about you. I agree with leaving the negative option turned off.