Giving reputation points for interesting problems as well as solutions?

far as I know you can use rep points any way you want :-)

I sometimes give rep for solutions and I sometimes get rep for solutions it's particularly satisfying when an onlooker appreciates your work enough to give substance and, hopefully, kudo

Hi Dave

I've given Rep Points for solutions (not MY solutions) to "intriguing/interesting new problems" but not to the OP who has posted the "intriguing/interesting new problem".

I've been random with my doling out of rep points and I've been guarded with them.

I just got a rep hit from someone that was looking at a thread (that wasn't theirs) and seeing my solution. I thought that was totally cool.

I give rep points randomly, since they don't mean anything anymore. The only thing that bugs me is that I can't give rep to the same post twice or even 3 times.

@Japan Dave - are you sure about that? I've gotten rep twice from one of the Guru's; although I've never tried to award reps more than once myself. (I hope that doesn't mean that they'll take one back.)

You can give reps to whoever you want. If you want to rep a good question, you can (I cant say I have ever done that though). I have also given reps to solutions that I thought were deserving, be they from a novice or a top member, and I must agree that is it very satisfying to receive reps from some-one other than the OP for a solution you have come up with

Getting rep points from somebody “higher” in the forum hierarchy is more satisfying

I completely agree with that. The first high rep I got was from romperstomper a couple years back and that made my week at the time. I believe it was because I caught a small error in a code snippet that he didn't immediately catch. He put some pep into my step for that. I think peer rep-giving will always be the most inspiring.

Mordred, this was in the past, take into account the world crisis, keeps points for you... LoL

A reb* by a quy that you know that is better than you, is something that don't forget easily...

I feeled that last summer, when i got a reb* from NBVC!

Originally Posted by Mordred

I think peer rep-giving will always be the most inspiring.

totally agree-I've been fortunate enough to receive rep from daddylonglegs, Andy Pope and Colin Legg which all made me feel pretty darned good for a long time after! I couldn't care less for titles and such but a pat on the back from folk like that? priceless :-)

What I really hate is having worked on a problem and come up with a massive function that's about 200 characters long to have some clever git do the same in three words or less LOL

It's really embarrassing

yes, gotta love that 1 Andy...I *try* to take it as a learning experience

There's always a smartass LOL............ That's why I love it....I thought I was pretty smart but now I've learned humility F...
The original post about interesting questions is valid although I don't think people should get rep for asking questions...
I got to know Ozgrid by asking ..

I gave rep the other day to an OP, but not for his question - for the way he responded to the solution (it wasn't my solution and I hadn't subscribed to the thread).

Don't get me looking for that bro-hug romperstomper!

Earlier this week I received rep points from a post I made in August, 2007... FROM THE ORIGINAL POSTER! Almost six years removed, that's impressive. (To me, at least)

was her name snow?

That is Paul, considering you wrote that off years and years ago.

Name wasn't snow or snow-related, FD.

lol I meant snow, as in snow white - slept for a few years before the handsome prince (Paul) woke her up

Originally Posted by AndyLitch

What I really hate is having worked on a problem and come up with a massive function that's about 200 characters long to have some clever git do the same in three words or less LOL

Been on both sides of that situation, many times.

It's really embarrassing

Awww.... not at all. Be embarrassed when you KNOW BETTER and still do it wrong, not for seeing a shorter answer than you conceived. Shorter isn't always better. Some short array functions might be far less efficient than something more horrendous to the eye.

The INDEX/SMALL/IF array trick we see so often is frequently short enough to read well, but that dog is memory hungry. We can do the same thing with nested OFFSET()s usually, for more efficient, doesn't loop into itself, but is MUCH harder to read. Depends on what the goal is. Short or efficient.