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[PopCulturePooka]

Admins AND mods have the power and right to read reputation comments to check for abuses of the reputation system. I couldn't believe that Silverpoint had so many "green balls" with only a few hundred posts, a good deal of which were unproductive arguments with me, and otherwise few really remarkable posts. He only started 4 threads, including one about his wedding.

Are they abuses of the system if the two parties aren't complaining?

Its their perogative about what comments they make to each other.

It does not matter how much rep Silverpoint has and why he has it. People can give rep if they agree with or support another poster.

Tell me, if you read a rep comment from Mikecash to say... Frank badmouthing me, would you inform me?

What makes the same happening to you any different?

[Maciamo]

Are they abuses of the system if the two parties aren't complaining?

Its their perogative about what comments they make to each other.

It does not matter how much rep Silverpoint has and why he has it. People can give rep if they agree with or support another poster.

If you had read the "sticky" thread "Reputation Points" : RULES, posted a bit more than one year ago, you would have noticed that I already checked several users' reputation comments on suspicion of abuse. It was clearly explained that :

If I do find anyone contnuing their unfair trade of rep points (and all admins and moderators have the capability to view any users's reputation comments and who it comes from), I will not hesitate to penalise them (at worst I could reset their rep. to zero)

This means that I had the capability and right to check reputation comments from the start (this was posted soon after the reputation system was introduced), and I explicitly said that I was going to check people whenver I felt it necessary (or even at random) tp prevent abuses. As forum members are supposed to have read these rules, they cannot complain about writing "private" things there. CC1, and Silverpoint that joined the forum only 3 months ago, have read and replied to this thread. I doubt that mikecash, who has 2,250 posts and even joined the forum before me (I only realised that now => Join Date: 15-03-2002 !), never to have noticed this thread, prominently stuck at the top of the "Site & Forum Updates" subforum.