I agree, I've been at beyond repute for ages. I almost made a thread about this myself.

Quote Originally Posted by Rantzien View Post
I think because everyone could only give one rep point at a time at first, it seemed to take forever to get rep so we set the levels down a ton. Then those who had gotten some rep started getting more reputation power and were giving like 10 points at a time and people's points started rising exponentially, and now we have a good few members who give out like 100 rep points every time they rep someone, which would pretty much take a new member to the highest level in one click.

Edit: okay someone changed it, so more like three clicks now.
How is rep power determined?