I agree PresRDC, and tried to give you a bling, but I am fresh out for 24 hours.

Maybe it is the word "reputation" that causes me to think very seriously about how I use my three comments a day. So far I have only given out happy blings and have signed all but one to techgirl, and that was only because I accidentally sent before I had finished it.

If someone cheated on a deal (coupon connection), I think that would be worth of a ding, or maybe if they said something really cruel to another poster or committed fraud (signing someone else's name), but to me it doesn't seem right to ding someone just because you disagree with them on an issue. I disagree all the time with Rudi and Hunki, particularly about political matters, but I still hold them both in the very highest regard and, while I will argue with them, would never ding them, just because we disagree on a position. There are so many points of view and they are all probably partly right and partly wrong. Who am I to judge another's opinion.

It will be interesting to see how this whole reputation thing plays out over time.