Rep Recognition

I am wondering just how a person is alerted to the fact that they have received rep on any particular thread? The reason that I ask is because it seems that when I do rep someone, they are aware of it in very short order, because of their responses in my visitor messages.

I have never received any kind of notice of rep given me (not that it happens too often), but the only way I know of rep that I have received is to click my own rep scale, and that only gives me a total count, and no way to know when, where or by whom it was received. I'm sure that there must be a better way to know the score than that?

EDIT: I found a partial explanation in the sticky on Rep And Badges, but I find it hard to believe that everybody keeps checking that manually throughout the day.

i long ago bookmarked 'user cp' as my sevenforums 'home' page.

i can instantly see replies to subscribed threads, as well as recent reps given to/from me.

in fact i very rarely visit the real sevenforums.com home page at all.

I thought that you had to keep the badges and rep points that add up, but then a kind admin removed the badges and set my rep to zero. I'm happy to know that the badges won't be coming back, too bad that it is still possible to receive rep, but at least it doesn't show now.

Of course I gave rep to those who have helped me out (the information is in the usercp), but I don't want any of that stuff.

Hopalong X said:

Just to send Thanks if anything was posted.

It seemed to be unwritten forum etiquette by others when I joined.
I continue the etiquette and other newer members mostly follow the example of others as I did.

I keep forgetting to look