Of course this is not to be taken seriously. I guess many people even don´t know about this possiblity and I myself don´t give reps for every good post I read, most of the time I just don´t think of it. I have given a few though, and once it was refused - it wasn´t allowed to rep the same person twice or what. I don´t know why, btw. in my case I never give rep just because I like the person or to greet beginners or something like that

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Now I have 19 points and rep power 2. Does it mean when I give reputation to someone he will get 2 points? Once I got 5 points from somebody, which probably means he had rep power 5? And how do you know Ashiene someone has 12 points, I thought the points of other people are visible only to them?