When I first came here all I had to rely on was post count as far as who's advice I trusted. I quickly realized that this was no measure of someones experience or knowledge. Their are still alot of guys (an girls) here that I don't know too well and haven't seen a lot of posts by; for these people I tend to look at the relationship between how long they have been here and their post count. I am more likely to trust someone who has been here for 2 years and has 2k posts than someone who has been here 6 months and has 4k post. I think it's a better measure of how much helpful information vs. bull-loz someone has posted.

As far as a rep system, I don't think it could work. You would have people like the AEU and Elitist building up each others rep and ganging up on others tearing theirs down. Too much clique-ing going on here sometimes.

JMHO

MT