http://www.thehelper.net/forums/usercp.php
Scroll down and take a look at your reputation. You get a green bar for every 100 you get. You get a red bar for every 100 below 0 (starting from (+-)1-99).
about your TD, im willing to help if you can show me what you have got so far (Im good at working on maps but i tend to have a hard time starting them) and just so you know, im not very good at balancing (also, im not on TH.net very often so if you reply i might not see it for a couple of days)
I do know this - xenforo dropped the ball by not keeping the vbulletin reputation comments as a feature. The loss of the Reputation comments data when we switched to Xenforo really was the death knell for the site when it came to all the users that left. I know I missed it so much and I got way less interested in the site when that feature was gone and I run the site.
I'm on a page about incorrect corrections, and spent the better part of like two hours trying to get someone to understand that -5^2 = -25, not 25, and then that post had comments get reposted because that group is self sustaining, and that person was in turn trying to explain what I just explained to them. And I'm taking that as a victory