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[Sam]

Sadly, we're still discovering incidences of reputation abuse, even after this warning was given.  The reputation system is there for members to thank others for posts, or to show appreciation.  It is not there for you to go through the posts of another member and vote them all down because you don't like the member, and it's not there for you to register multiple accounts to give yourself more rep.

Reputation is there merely as a small thing, just because you have 200 rep points, does not mean you will automatically get to be a beta tester, and similarly just because you have -50, doesn't mean you automatically get banned.  We'd really like to keep the reputation system as most people are capable of using it correctly, so instead of removing it, we'll just start banning those who misuse the system.

[Ad-Robot]