Reputation?

I am new to the forums and find Reputation in our name profile. Could someone please tell me how you get it and what it is used for. Thanks in advance.

 

You get + repped when you do something that people like. Like helping someone with a problem, or render images, make tutorials etc.

If you do something people don't like, they wil -rep you. That could be if you ripped something or if you are a jerk.


You can rep someone when you have 150 posts.

 

When you do something good for someone else giving you a (pos)rep point is a means of appreciation (like if you do something for free and stuff, despite the fact 75% of the people on this site are negative and only -rep others and forget about (pos)repping others).

Negative repping occurs when your a smartass, call someone names, act immature, say unneeded things, etc. and its a way of telling other people that your an immature jackass (seemingly no one appears to forget about -repping others, they just dont (pos) rep others).

You need 150 posts in order to rep both (pos) and - rep. The more (pos) rep you have and the less -rep you have, the more trustworthy you are.

Its basically all covered in the forum FAQs here:
http://www.gamerenders.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=198922

The pinned topics are here for a reason, despite what the new people here may think, they DO carry some information that could be valuable to you.