Ok, this has happened to me like 7 times. A lot of people know how to click the almighty +rep button, but they don't seem to understand that you need to change the value from 0 to 1 with the little scrolly bar thing. So, I decided to make this to show the people that don't understand this concept how to do it.
First part is obvious: Click the "+rep" button. Ta-da!
Ok, now here comes the tricky part, you see the scrolly bar thing? Well, you have to click the little arrow so it scrolls down, and then you choose how much rep to give, like so:
Last part: Write a nifty little sentence and click the "add to rep" button:
There you have it! Thanks to Phase for letting me use him as my example (even though you didn't know I was going to do this)