Hi gang.

I would like to make a suggestion for a change in the reputation system. I'm tired of getting the "You have to spread your reputation around before you can rate mr X again" message every time I want to give someone a few rep points for some excellent advice or code snippet. I mainly hang around in the Classic VB part of this forum and most questions there are answered by a few numbers of very active members so it's not very surprising that I often want to rate the same persons.

I fully understand that the way the system is implemented now, that you have to rate (I think it is) 20 people before rating the same person again is to avoid people from cheating. But couldn't this be combinated with a time limit. Say if I've given some rep points to mr. X, I can't give him more until I've rated 20 others or it's been 2 weeks since I rated him last (or 3 weeks or a month, I don't know). When I want to rate someone he/she of course really deserves it and I don't want to browse around looking for other replies I can rate just so I can give the well deserved reputation points to whomever that may be.

What do you think?