I now understand that the rep spread is "10 people" (thanks Marty!)...

This means that I have to give points to 10 different people before I can give a rep to the same person.

I wanted to rep someone today - but apparently I rep's them back in early April and had not yet rep'd 10 people.

I spend a lot of time in the DB forum helping noobies - so I don't get around to rep'ing people very often...

Would it be possible to someone incorporate the "time span" between rep'ing the same person so that this doesn't occur?

I fully understand the need to keep cheating at a minimum - but I obviously wasn't trying to cheat the system.