Forum members' reputation

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I've been asked several times about the reputation system at Trans Ladyboy and about the way it works. Here's what a forum software manual says about it:

User Reputation in its simplest form is a ranking of your user's benefit to your forum. Its basis comes from the opinions of all of your forum users that choose take part in it.
Users gain and lose reputation based on how their posts are scored by other forum participants. Users with the ability to affect reputation, will either give or take aways points by approving or disapproving with a post's content.

Except for the number of green rectangles under your post count that all other users see, reputation also affects the number of pictures one can view per day.