Until a few minutes ago, members could give or remove 1 reputation points from members at a certain interval of time. People would give thumbs up and down based on people contributions in the community. However, the forum now uses a new reputation system where people can vote on individual posts and topics, like Youtube comments. Basically, users' karma will now be tied directly with their posts.

There are a few differences, though. First, each members can only give one thumb up or down per comment. Secondly, it is possible to cancel your vote on a comment by simply clicking the colored thumbs icon again, or to negate your vote by clicking the other thumbs icon. Third, this new feature comes with a new karma system that displays in your post personal info or your profile like the old karma system. This reputation level, called "Respect", is the total of positive and negative comment ratings you received on the entire board. If one of your comment receives negative rating, this total will automatically go down. If one of your comment receives positive rating, this total will automatically go up. Fourth, comments are not hidden when they received a certain amount of negative ratings. This might, however, become an option at a later date if we figure out how to make this feature not look horrible on the current forum skin.

There was also a forum update involving bug fixes, mostly with the arcade system and broken modification install files, which caused most modifications to no longer be possible to uninstall.

early edit: Exactly where are these "thumbs"? If they're there, they aren't rendering in Google Chrome. I'm gonna try some other browser to see if the result is the same.
later edit: I'm lost. Screenshot with MS-Paint annotation (or similar) requested.

The upper right hand corner of the post.  They're mostly white so it's sort of hidden.

Same here.  I'm using Firefox, and all I get is a 0, and when i put my mouse over it, it gives a ?, and then says 'The current Score of this Post'

EDIT: Tried IE and got the same thing

I still can't see it, regardless of what I do. Are you sure this feature is enabled for everyone? As far as I can see, it might be visible only to admin.

edit: I say this because the only posts I see that have a success with seeing it include admin, while everyone else is of a different membership type. I'm not sure if this is enough posts to draw that kind of conclusion, but...

DJ Omnimaga, try creating a "normal" account and see if you can see it.

mhmm.... i might have to check this out...

I remember having serious troubles with something similar with the portal

I just checked and regular members can't use them.

[edit] It should be fixed now.

Thanks. It is fixed. Noticed this while I was making a post in some other thread thingie.

it's true
hmm, I like this. I also was wondering what happened to the main page...

ah, well at least you did it