I predict that come Monday, Randy's inbox will be full of people complaining about dings. I'll be able to read the dings that I get for posting the following, but:

If it's possible to turn reputation off in all forums but Coupon Connection, it should be done. Else, it should be turned off completely to keep nasty infighting (and the resultant waste of time and bandwidth to various mailboxes at the House of Miles) to a minimum.

IMHO, it's far more trouble than it's worth.