So for a regular member like myself, who only looks at threads on here that interest myself, it's a bit hard to tell if somebody's post in the B-Series section on say flash-tuning was useful. Since I wouldn't be looking in the B-Series section.
The newbies theory still stands, as they don't have their own rep-power to let everyone know that "hey, this person's post really helped me when I was just starting out here!". Maybe it's more of a stumble than somewhat falling down :P
Well, that's all fine (helpful people will help regardless) but that's neither here nor there with respect to this Reputation/Rep Power system.
As I said in my last post, the smiley faces make perfect sense to me, it's just the Rep Power factor seemed skewed due to post count/join date. That's all