I'm just curious as to what the use of Kudos points are.

Are they just to show your accomplishments on the site, or what?

I am just wondering...


Thank you for your time.

It's a token of appreciation you can give someone you like or found helpful.
While they can be informative I think they couldn't be the only parameter to judge the goodness of someone.
Anyway don't hurt anyone showing we appreciate him, the kudos are the way to show this.

It's a way of annonomously saying thanks for someone spending the time to help you, or another person out, or create something really cool. It's like that karma stuff.

It would kinda be useful to know what you were getting thanked for though. Maybe some sort of optional comment field, and a way for you, or other people to see those comments. But that'd probably be too big a problem to track.