[Gurthang]

Although that sounds like a good idea, Jenny, I'm not sure that it's possible.

If you have a button there to reply to the repper, then it would probably always be there, whether the person who repped you signed the rep or not. It would essentially eliminate the anonymous-ness of the system.

I don't know that for sure -- maybe it is just as simple as adding an 'allow PM reply' box that you can check when you rep someone -- but I really doubt that it would ever be put in place even if it is possilbe. It just doesn't seem to fit with the way reputations work.

I want to also point out that people saying thank you for anonymous reps is, while nice, unnecessary. If the person wanted to be thanked for the rep, they would probably have signed it in the first place. Personally, I give reps without any thought of a thank you. It seems too self-gratifying to rep for a thank you, and the rep system was certainly not designed to be self-gratifying.