A Question About Reputation

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I've found myself less enamoured of giving out reps the higher I've climbed its ladder- not so much because I don't feel that people are posting with less deservingness as much as because, as has already been complained about, there is no ceiling on what one's OWN rep is worth. I feel guiltier about silly Crazy Captions reps than I once did, since the weight being given is not proportionate to anything other than my own rep. For that reason, possibly, I'm more willing rep something that took time to write, like a really good Books post, or to rep one post with the noted intention of standing for a whole pile of them (contributions to WW or an RPG might fit along these lines).

Mind you, the above is what I think when I bother to think about it. After a year or so, the automatic hitting of the rep button when reading a really good (or funny) post is pretty much instinct. So much so that I've accidentally given positive rep instead of negative rep...