As I've said all along, I will abide by whatever decision Randy makes, and that may simply be to utterly ignore all these threads, and let the issue go away. Fine. No problem.

But some people are forgetting - there never was a reputation feature on the UBB board. It was adopted with the transition. The implicit idea is that FT sanctions a reputation feature, and that, by extension, it matters to someone (Dan At Flyertalk, Randy Petersen, the moderators, etc.) even if it doesn't matter to you individually. So to suggest that people shouldn't care about it is a nice "sticks and stones" piece of advice, but IMO, does not conform with whatever the ideas were behind deciding to adopt a reputation feature and also the possible ways in which it could impact decisions with regard to timeouts, suggestions, etc. in any future situations.

As ClueByFour says, it should be restricted to Coupon Connection, consistent with Randy's remark that it was intended only for that forum. Though I think it will be interesting to see how turning on the automatic ID changes how people use the feature.