Maybe one way to solve this, I know the Thank You tried to address it (even though I don't even think it's a problem), is in addition to counting reputation points, count the number of times someone has been repped.

Kind of like a U.S. government checks and balances thing. Make 2 houses of reps. One where the Reputation points are like the House, based on the punching power of the person who reps you and one like the senate, where no matter the punch power, everyone's rep counts the same.

So say I rep you my full 21. You get 21 rep points and then there is a separate tally somewhere that just counts the 1 click I gave you. Don't know if that is possible but it seems like it could work. That way, you're still repping someone, the punch power still matters but the numbers don't get to inflated or if they do get inflated, you can still see who has the most overall clicks in addition to rep points.