Now i'm not one to moanbut there is a growing trend on this forum whereby people are following other people about just to give them Positive Rep - Especially when the poster they Rep has a massive Rep count.
Not content with that, they advertise the fact by posting "repped" so the person they have repped knows they have been repped and can give some back, thereby boosting their own Rep.
I have seen some truly desperate things in my time but this really takes the proverbial biscuit, so is rep like Green Shield stamps or something? Do you get off on having a massive Rep score, does it make you feel better about yourself? Seriously?
The words of Groucho Marx come to mind when he said "I would not want to be a member of any club that would accept me as a member" (I'm paraphrasing).
In essence, I would much rather have Zero Rep and be oblivious to this whole sad chaarade than spend my waking hours pimping my arse around various forums to get some ethereal and wholly meaningless "reputation" from people I neither know nor respect. What makes it even more Ironic is that some of the best, most humourous posters on these forums have zero Rep, so I'd much rather join them than be aligned with botossers who care about such trivial ****e.
Get me back to Zero you sad boring bastards.
I think the idea behind it was to give people an indication about the person who has the aforementioned 'rep'.
You post comments, and if people like them, or not, they can issue the 'rep' in either positive or negative fashion.
I must admit there is a fair amount of obsessed people on here who like nothing better than to have 65,000,000 rep points... threads such as the 'Rep Brothel' on the Toon board are a good example of where to find these people...
Ok, i've been whoring it up on there a bit, but it's just a bit of harmless fun to pass the time of day. 
You say you're not bothered by it, yet you've written a thread about it!
I realise that this thread is a double-bluff and that you are in fact looking for people to give you lots of positive rep!

Wish I'd thought of it...
...I mean, er, I couldn't care less about it.



