yea he's right, you get +rep for posts, so it goes up incrementally. but you'll be able to see your rep votes when you get them (CBG just gave you some)
i think the point is that (and i have no idea what you're talking about) that the show? creates the hype so that the winner makes their money, and they pwn them way more than a normal artist how about some links for whatever you're talking about
could be some other driver rooting up your NI software i had that with video codecs, it'd crash explorer.exe cause the 2 codecs rooted each other uninstalling one fixed it. so mebe google if it's that