Hi there,

Once you have made 50 posts you can award them or detract them from posters who you believe have made a good post or a post which you disagree with.

Actually, I personally wouldn't necessarily (ooh - adverb city) deduct points from posters I disagreed with - though I probably would if I thought the post was irresponsible, ill-researched or plain malicious.

Healthy debate is good.  Single-mindedness and malice towards members who disagree with a given position is not.

But that's just me!  On Dooyoo and Ciao, you can 'trust' people, and rate people's reviews.  The etiquitte is that you don't downrate a review because you disagree with the opinion, but rather you rate how useful the review is to a potential consumer of the product or service being reviewed.  I'd tend to feel the same about respect points.