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Every 100,000 points, Sean comes round with a rather interesting gift. My advice is not to get 100,000 points.
veni bibi saltavi
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The gift is fine.
It's the outfit he wears that's the problem...
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Was he wearing a sheep cheap outfit?
Espen Harlinn
Chief Architect - Powel AS
Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail. Edsger W.Dijkstra
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Every 100,000 points, Sean comes round with a rather interesting gift.
I think we've just learned why you started drinking. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I've got a bragging left, does that count?
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OriginalGriff wrote: I've got a bragging left,
I think you've got bragging left overs. 
Serious, take a year vacation and let some people catch up. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The practical use of it is that as you build up rep, the range of things you can do increases: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Reputation.aspx[^]
None of them are essential for participation with the site, but they can help to improve it for everybody.
The impractical use is that you can cash your points in for real money, provided you have the highest reputation, and you don't live in Wales. And don't mind the exchange rate, which is only available for conversation to the Triganic Pu.
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OriginalGriff wrote: you can cash your points in for real money Zimbabwe Dollars
FTFY 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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It's for your ego. 
[edit]And it's a motivation system to post inane posts like this one.[/edit]
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: And it's a motivation system to post inane posts like this one
And it's a motivation system to upvote inane posts like that one! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: And it's a motivation system to upvote inane posts like that one!
Ditto!
Marc
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As Griff pointed out, a lot of it has to do with permissions to vote articles up/down, etc.
Personnaly, I come here to help people, get help, and troll the lounge. The whole notion of "reputation" translate into "what do people think of me", and is really an artificially inflated sense of self worth that has no real bearing on your skills or abilities.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Coder (Hired) wrote: The whole notion of "reputation" translate into "what do people think of me", and is really an artificially inflated sense of self worth that has no real bearing on your skills or abilities.
That sounds like mature wisdom you speak, and we have no place for that kind of talk here!
Jeremy Falcon
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Sorry, it won't happen again
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I'd suggest never going OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
modified 12-Jun-15 11:16am.
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You are a little late. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Um, you sure this was not a joke? You can chose the type of the post if it was.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Updated 
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Reputation ranking is several things. In the context of the question I think you are asking, it is a system for measuring credibility on the website. Serious answers or statements (ie. not jokes) from those with a high reputation should be considered worth more than someone with a lower rep value.
It is also an RPG where the winner gets ... umm, nothing.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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H.Brydon wrote: Serious answers or statements (ie. not jokes get a lot of up votes) from those with a high reputation should be considered worth more than someone with a lower rep value.
FTFY
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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The reputation system on the Lounge is a cross between the concept involved in the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" Album and a video-game where you win by helping yourself (to more points) as well as, hopefully, teaching others
The game, itself, is influenced by the wisdom teachings of Ahura-Mazda (aka Manicheanism): i.e., it is a war-zone where a cosmic struggle is played out between the forces of Light and Dark, Yin and Yang, Vanilla and Chocolate, Groovy and Bummer, Ego and Id, Self-Aggrandizement and Altruistic Empathy.
The usual Angels and Demons are included at no extra charge.
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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10 reputation points and $4.79 will get you a Latte Grand at the local Starbucks.
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I'm a really, really old member of codeproject, and as far as I know, the only use for the reputation system I can see is to keep the rectocranially-inverted members involved and entertained. As I'm sure you know, technocrats rarely score with members of the opposite (or, perhaps more politically correct, female) gender, so scoring points on a website has some trading value in dork circles. You can't trade reputation points for pizza or beer, so they're meaningless to me.
Will Rogers never met me.
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