Originally posted by 420
Once again, an interesting read :y:
This thread proves a HUGE point : How rep isn't EARNED these days. You said that at the rate these people are going, they would have smashed Dopey's rep and so on... but I'm sure Dopey earned his rep through effort and being a long time, respected and contributing member. Whereas most of these new kids just want rep, ask for it, or just get lucky when people in the SB say, link me for +whatever and shit. Rep is a joke now, it's more of a game, but hey, it still keeps members motivated to post.
It is unfair to judge this list as a group or compare them as a whole to other members.
There is no denying the changes in how Rep is viewed or aquired over the last 10 to 12 months and there is no universal measure to determine if it was Earned or not.
Rep to post is a somewhat fair one, but it does not account for a very successful thread, such as the one Biz did recently.
Some people do better than others and most on this list are very active on the site. That is really what the site needs, activity and the things that motivate it.
I did not intend to single anyone out for some kind of rep abuse ( and there are many that joined before this year who could make that list).
I was just playing with some of the new search features and was surprised to some of the figures.
Espcially the amount gained in posts and not threads by the general membership.
Anyway, I'm not knocking these guys at all. They working it like the rest of us..