Kudos is an old word but you can think of it as praise and recognition for your actions.
For more on kudos - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudos
This website is all about creating a great community. To help monitor the value of people's contributions I will be implementing a kudos system. At present (230708) there is only the system that is my brain. This will all change as this current system is clearly not as reliable as a computer based system. Kudos will play a part in how I reward the members of the community. For those interested here's how that will work:

Negative kudos highlights your account for review so that core staff can decide whether to disable, delete, or delete and ban.

Positive kudos highlights your account for review so the site owner can decide whether or not you deserve a bigger cut of the Ad Revenue