Hi mate,
I understand 100% what you mean regarding the rep system, i remember them days! I was soo happy when the Rep system got taken off.
The main problem with the rep system was the opportunity to "Neg Rep" which lead to saxp-saddos writing in complaining they have been left negative rep and requesting the admin to alter it. And bandwagons all neg repping one user. etc
The thanks system is used really well on this forum as it is for the moment. However i feel this could be improved further and it would be very easy to implement. We could easily set it up to only work in certain sections, such as the Problems & Queries section, as opposed to the General Chat section.
The benefit of this is its quite easy to see which members are helping out and gives a better judgement than a simple "post count" which could be 28,757 posts of crap
(OJ).