You've made some good points in this thread. Im hardly a hippy dippy communist but I do think the new system has its flaws. I can get rep from 20 newbies or just a couple of long time members and yet both will affect my power punch (which is weak considering how long ive been here and how many CC's I once had) in the same way. Getting respect is better in the CC way of getting "one more on the notch" IMO.

The current system may well lead to a select few dominating and controlling with their power punch and with many others having a much weaker influence. Perhaps a metaphor for the way things are in the world itself.