Totally agree with that, make noob rep mean summit, like 5 points. Due to large numbers of 'noobs' but not many use the rep system 5 points i think should be adiquate.

The point of reputation isn't for thanks. Reputation is a meter that shows how you've been recognized by the other established members at Daniweb based on the value of your contributions. Noobs who do use the rep system will give rep for a simple answer. If you want thanks, read the reply they almost always leave...

Couldn't have said it better myself

Yes infarcation, i agree with you there, but how many well esablished members have frequent problems which others can help wth? Not very frequently, and if your like me who has major knowledge in a few areas, it's even harder to get repped because you are getting repped by the 'noob' community who have no power compared to the well established members.

Do you get where i'm coming from though?

You are under the wrong impression that you get repped by people only if you help them. Many established members of this site rep people for good replies. Even I rep many people in C/C++, Java, Javascript forums so it doesn't mean they answered my questions. Its just that they put across a valid, useful and helpful answer.

I guess thats the real meaning of reputation i.e. having a reputation in the eyes of the ones who understand the real meaning behind it.

Also Serunson if you have major knowledge in a few areas, why don't you try to write some good tutorials and you can get reputation there...

I highly doubt anyone would do such a thing.. What would be the purpose? Simply to gain reputation in the community? I'm quite certain that such activity could be easily monitored. If some random person that no one has ever heard of before all of a sudden has 700 rep points, then perhaps that member should be investigated for 'fraud' by the admins. It would not be hard to catch people doing that, and I doubt many would anyways.. We are just talking about small points (like 1-5) for new members.
But on the contrary, you have to ask yourself what is the purpose of an IT community such as this? The reason for its very existence is to help one another... to share our knowledge, and in return be taught something ourselves. So, the new members should be allowed a voice in the community. If any Daniweb member helps another with a problem, be it little or small (what does it matter? That member was stumped and needed help.. it shouldn't matter whether the problem seemed idiotic to the tech gurus) then the member who donated his time and knowledge should be rewarded. The rep system should not be ultimately controlled by the daniweb regulars... it should exist in such a way to reward those who help others, and who contribute to the overall success of the community.

There, that is my humble opinion on the matter..

You're missing the point.
Reputation is to demonstrate you achievements, not your efforts. If you help a lot of people, it'll be visible by your post count (with some obvious outliers). If your answers are widely regarded for their quality, it'll be shown through rep.

It's possible. It certainly doesn't have the shock value of Rashakil's bot, but someone might do it. We seem to have a couple people who care about it that much...

We are still doing what we come here to do: ask and answer questions. There are many other forums that do the same thing, without the reputation system. All we've been trying to say is that the rep system is a frill whereby the regular users can give a little something to each other for putting forth an effort. We've already seen that the system becomes valueless if people are giving rep for no reason. Noobs would probably rep the first person that gave them a functional answer (if they'd do it at all), and it would not carry the same meaning anymore. The system in place now is the way it should be.

Well i stand corrected.
I shall see what i can do on the tutorial front, gunna be around hardware mainly probably. Check them out once i have meade them, to check that i am not blabbering about rubbish

A question though, how do i post tutorials!
I see no option to post one in it's section.

To ensure a high quality of tutorials, they must all be passed through Davey. What you need to do is manually enter the URL of the newthread page ... ie www.daniweb.com/forums/newthread.php?f=XXX where XXX is the forum ID of the tutorials forum. Upon submitting, the tutorial goes into a queue where it has to be manually approved.