There has been a lot of Lounge threads pop up recently about trading reputation points. As I have come across these threads, I have deleted them.

Reputation points were disabled in the Lounge to prevent abuse of the reputation system. Members have had reputation points taken away from them, frozen to where they can't give reputation to others, and some have had them disabled.

This is a reminder that blatant reputation trading is not allowed, and posting about trading reps is prohibited. The point of the reputation system is so that users can see who has been helpful in the deal and tech sections, not who is the most popular in the Lounge. Abuse of the reputation system will not be tolerated. It is in fact because of such abuse that negative reps were disabled.