[Ted S]

Great explination... thanks.

My idea was to make the rep tie in an option (obviously) with an admin defined option to set the rep given per a positive rating (and the rep taken away for a negative one, or 0 to not do this).

This is fairly straight forward and basic and doesn't worry about power but it sounds like power is something important so how about a manual option to set the rep points OR the ability to set the % of a user's rep power?

Of course this can be evolved more down the road -- I'm a believer in getting something out there that people like and that works but not trying to build every feature possible at once as it's just too hard to know what you'll want until you're really "in the weeds" using it.