Pawkeshup Delivers on Time wrote:
I could see moving away from rate-downs... but then you are moving away from a staple of the forum and towards some other forum.
Yeah, but when the "staple of the forum" is useless and discouraging to new posters, you should probably move away from it. I doubt anyone really uses the filter system, and we now have Ignore if there is a poster or three whom we don't want to read regularly. I'm sure you could do away with a rating system completely and be fine. I still think there's some merit in giving people the ability to rate individual posts and threads overall, but I don't think that those things should affect a poster's standing on the site.
Perhaps you could move towards a title system to replace the Scholar/Sage/Guru system based on something like number of posts in certain forums, or number of Wiki edits. Or just have those things unlock specific title sets or something silly.