ICQ and Chat

Hey I am just curious on some things about how this whole forum works. I have an ICQ account and was wondering if people here still used it or if they used another IM service to stay in contact with there friends from here. Also, on this forum how does the reputation thing work out? I notice that some people have a much higher number than others in reputation and others dont have any. What is that and what does it mean?

Sorry, don't do ICQ or whatever.....I pretty much use here, to keep track of my friends here. Oh, I have a phone too that some have the number for.

Try this for the rep thing: http://www.cigarsmokers.com/threads/...ser-Reputation
The icon for it has changed and it's located in the bottom left of each post. I found it using search.