[DDDamian]

In general I don't really care about reputations and find the rep to much noticable.

I agree. The rep stands out significantly. And its sometimes a bit misleading. I was surprised to see some guys that have been very helpful on the forums to have a negative rep and then when I looked into it they got a -20 or something back in 2007. Kind of meaningless in the present day. If rep is going to stay against the user maybe its better just to use the last 12 months data rather than really old stuff.

I tend to agree - and it's not something the dev team wants to be embroiled in. It has it's merits, but the above suggestion makes sense in allowing past trangressions (warranted or not) to slide off the scale. There is some debate on it now, let's see where it goes.