RE: Your turn to earn the respect of your fellow posters!
To everyone concerned, it's not a big deal. Hell when I handed them out long before Greg became a member I handed them out on single word replies as well as paragraphs. It has nothing to do with the person, the amount of words within the thread/reply, just that it's a "great post"...2 words or 100...doesn't matter. It doesn't even need to have proper grammer....it just have to have meaning...understand...
Really, just forget all about it and when you see one, think...cool, great post, it might be worth reading, it was worth awarding.