Ladies and Gentlemen, There is no reason for anyone to get a twist in their Kilt.

The little colored things were part of what the software calls "Reputation".
In a small forum or one with very little activity it can be used as a sort of reward or status system.

It has never been activated on this forum for the simple reason that some of you have already discovered. If you have a friend you simply click on his scales and his reputation goes up. If you have an enemy the reputation goes down just as easily.

To my way of thinking it is pretty stupid.

But my code guy and I were going through the entire site last night looking for possible conflicts in preparation for an update to the site. We were checking everything. Turning stuff on, turning it off. We simply forgot to turn this one off after we were done.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience. But at least some of you got some laughs out of it.