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Rep - Public or not?
This was touched on last week in another thread but never went anywhere. Vbulletin has a feature called "Rep". If you appreciated someones post you can add 'rep' to them by clicking on the scales icon to the left of their post. If you thought their post was a flame/unconstructive/etc you can also add negative rep.
The "rep" itself doesn't do anything, it is just a little recognition - the idea being that over time the community becomes a little self moderating. It has no affect on your ability to use the forums. The only real affect is that the little green bars you see under people's names start to increase as they gain more rep. The only other benefit is that the higher your own "rep" is the more it affects someone else when you add/remove rep.
Some forums let you see who added/took away rep, others don't. This one currently does but that was turned on without much thought. Don't have a strong opinion either way myself, posting to see if anyone else does...
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