It seemed over the past couple of days that some of the strange anonymous dinging had been cooling off...

I know I got a whole bunch of dings on the most innocuous of posts, and on some really helpful (I and others thought) posts. It made no sense to me!

But it seems to me that reputation was like a new toy, and folks had to try it out, and they may have been a bit overzealous with it. And with a few weeks under all of our belts, it seemed like things were beginning to settle in.

Of course this is just from the data points of my own reputation feedback. There were a bunch of bizarre ones and then those stopped, really just a few days ago. My own limited experience might not suggest a trend.

But at the moment there aren't any red boxes in my most recent 5. Alas, I'll never know the source of earlier unkindness. Perhaps it's for the best.