Earlier today, I received the following reputation point. I have my suspicion that this point was given in the hopes that I would complain about it, at which point they would remove it, in order to make me look foolish.
Regardless of whether this was this person's intent or not, I see the potential for manipulating people by way of the reputation point system in this manner as undesirable.
I'm not sure I understand why removal should be allowed at all, but I feel it would help prevent such acts if reputation points given could be edited, but not removed, except by a moderator, preferrably with an appropriate annotation in the change log.
Just my two cents worth.