Exchange reputation?

[FlyingJesus]

but not by a lot.. ive been with this forum exactly 2 years today and i dont even have 500 rep points lol.

Not sure how indicative of average rep that is tbh, I'm sure plenty of people don't have huge amounts (especially newer members - partly due to not being here long and partly due to the changes in rep power that crippled it all in the first place) but bringing up your own number shows an important flaw in this: the "costs". You said 500 for a month of Donator, 1000 for VIP, and yeah fair enough that might be some small incentive to work to, but under the current system it'd be fairly difficult to get that much unless you set up rep rings which would be flooding in a load of pointless reps and doesn't really help anything. You said yourself you have under 500 in 2 years, so I can't see people repping every day in the hope of getting some back so that in 2 years they can have a month of free Donator. Any higher charge and it'd be rendered even more unlikely (and no-one would bother), any lower and hey check me out using 8500 rep points to get years of free VIP and take money away from the site/forum.

[Hecktix]

In all honesty Habbox has given out way too much free VIP in recent years. To the extent that the number of users with VIP is over double the number of users who purchase donator - which is horrific for Habbox financially.

Reputation is a good system, don't forget every 400 points you get rewarded with +1 rep power.