Poll: Rep system...is it flawed?

[wilomn]

Any of you guys have teachers that gave you stickers when you were in first or second grade? Did those stickers have any real value outside the classroom? Did they make a difference in the real world? Did you get them simply for participating as well as achievement? Once you realized that cute as they were they had no real value did you feel sad? Cheated? Ready to play on the swings because you never bothered to think of them past the -wow what a pretty sticker- part of having stickers at all?

Did you pine for stickers? Long for them? Plan nefarious deeds in order to obtain them, to possess them, to hold them shiny and bright in your very own hands?

Seriously, they're stickers that we get for participating and occasionally achieving something cool; picture, clutch, cleverly worded diatribe, etc. etc. etc.

Sometimes, not always but sometimes, a thing is just what it seems to be. The greenies are just a way for others to be nice to you. Either be nicer, grow a tougher skin, or alter you perceptions of what is important.