Oh shit! I forgot carping! Okay, so to elaborate on what Carping is a bit more. It started with an
old post Carp made about how he liked to upvote a post and make it turn green (on the tenth post), and to give them a rep point that made their total rep 100, 500, 1000, etc. Not sure if it was at that time or if it began later on, but people would also wait until a user was close to a carping number, and then thumb spam some of their posts to so they could give them the carped point (usually using a user rep point as the final one). Now, it got a little bit out of hand, and a few things were largely (but unofficially) agreed upon by most people here. Those being:
1). Except for a user's 100th rep point, it only counts as a Carp if it's a multiple of 500. For example, this means that 1200 is not a carp, but 500, 1,000, and 1,500 are.
2). You can't thumb spam someone for a carp unless they are 10 rep points or less from the carping number. If they're say, 25 points away, and you thumb spam 25 of their posts, it counts as cheating. (Personally speaking, I think it makes it much more fun since it means sometimes multiple people are eyeing the same person, just waiting for them to get in carping range, and then rushing to see who gets to it first. One time myself and two other users all tried to give someone a Carp at the same time, and were actively competing against each other in real time even, which was a lot of fun. Oh, and I won).
I won't speak for everyone (like I said, it's an unofficial agreement bu most people), but I'm in agreement with both of those points. I used to Carp people a lot, and then I just forget to or something. I don't know. I used to take screencaps of my carps, for I don't know why. I just did.