A: "I'd _rep your post a thousand times_, if I could."

[Dan Goncharoff]

In many forums and social networking sites there is a mechanism for grading
posts. to rep is to grade positively. To neg-rep is to grade negatively.

DanG

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> A is expressing his enthusiastic support for the opinion expressed in
> an earlier post by B.
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> But what does _rep_ mean, exactly, in that context?
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> Does it mean, rapspeak-like, that "I wish that there were a thousand
> other occasions on which I could 'represent' or publicly show my
> support for your opinion"?
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> Or,
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> "I'd re-post your post to a thousand other sites"?
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> Or something more subtle?
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> Or something more obvious?
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