points and rep...

just a curious question here...

on the left side of a post where your avatar and # of posts are.. what are the "points" and "reputation"? ive been wondering about that and trying to come up with a logical explanition for em but they vary from person to person with no real pattern... so would someone please explain..

I don't know the whole skinny on the matter, but if you look on the right side of each post in a given thread, just below the Multi-Quote & Quote buttons there is a +, ----, and a -. If you click the + points are added. If you click the -, points are subtracted.

What all that means in the grand scheme of things is what I don't know. Maybe if we get a certain number of points we'll get treat or something.



Edit: I clicked the + on your post and sure enough your reputation jumped from 1 to 2 and your number of points increased from 408 to 409. Let me know what prize you get.

That is basically it Hook'em.... (except for the treat part)

We kind of abused it back in the day and it fizzled out.

Mr.RonGilbert wrote:

That is basically it Hook'em.... (except for the treat part)

We kind of abused it back in the day and it fizzled out.

That wasn't abuse. We just used it to the fullest extent.


I still have a negative rep from that.

What?! no prizes or treats for creating these awesome posts.


I guess I'll have to keep eating Cracker Jacks then.

Keep up the good work David!

I'll do you....if you do me!!!!!

That's not the kind of treat I had in mind!

What... you don't like sausage???

Wouldn't that be chorizo?

That is a negative point for the rep!

Somebody juice up my points so I can win Somethin!

There, I got your back!!

Everyone please gang bang my + and get me out of the negative.

It's no gang-bang, but there's one point for ya there, Bizarro!