I tried to rep this post by methomps to wish him a happy birthday, but when I submitted the rep it came back and said, "Sorry, you cannot give reputation to this post". I checked to see if I had given him rep with my last 10 reps (nope, and should've gotten the "Have to spread rep around" error message instead) and checked if I gave out more than 10 reps in 24 hours (nope, and should've gotten the "You have given out too much rep" error message instead). I also checked if the thread was locked (nope, but shouldn't make a diference for rep). I have never seen this error message before. What gives?


Is this your goal when you haze newbies about searching?