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First, let me confess that I'm a rep junky. There's nothing like a cup of percolated coffee, a frosted donut and a rep to start the day off right.

But it's not the points that are the addiction, but the comments that are attached. As I don't 'PM' (whatever that is), or email, or correspond with other wights beyond postings and rep, I find rep to be my little message board for the BD world. Rep is somewhat like "you've got mail from the Barrow."

I give rep not only to acknowledge a great post, but, as others have stated, for posts that are unusual for some reason - they make me smile, think, laugh, act, etc. As I was encouraged by rep when I started here, I've hoped to do the same now that I'm 'older.'

And as I'm confessing, I would let it be known that I'm a hypocrite in regards to rep. I enjoy a detailed rep explanation, but have more than once sent "Nice post" as my comment. With time and therapy, would hope to change that.