Ill vote no, I take each post at its content value, everytime regardless of whether its someone who posts alot of garbage most of the time. It isn't necessecary, Agree with Anders
The more of these things there are (ratings, photos, avatars, various signatures, karma, etc.), the more they take away from the true focus of the boards. And they easily lend themselves to abuse.
Maybe a cut-down version would work. If enough people vote for you, you gain "trusted user" status. The text "trusted user" would appear in the the sidebar of your posts. That's it. Maybe "untrusted user" and/or "very trusted user," but that's pushing it.
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what's that you say? ain't gonna happen?
oh, well then i guess that means no.
<strong>Yes, IF both of the following:
1) It could only be shown in a user's profile.
2) Individual users are given the option to turn it off.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Good suggestion.
However, multiple user levels based on post count might be nice....
My two cents.
Cheers,
Mark.
A lot of the time I give advice and don't get any feedback on whether the suggestion fixed the problem or not.
<strong>As someone who posts almost entirely in Genius Bar: I am for it. I want to get little gold stars for helping out just like in kindergarden.
A lot of the time I give advice and don't get any feedback on whether the suggestion fixed the problem or not.</strong><hr></blockquote>
nice to see you're modest