Holdfast
Stylish Dinosaur
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We ought to have a system that allows us to vote users up or down.
I'd like the board to have both thumbs up and thumbs down, but I wouldn't want to see it have any effect beyond simply displaying that voting data to users (in the same way you can see the thumbs up now). Posters can then see who has up- or down-voted the post, and make a judgement for themselves on the meaning/value of the votes.
The one exception would be that if the ratio is something like 30:1 negative (ie big enough to overwhelm the ability of any one subgroup to fully influence the vote), then hide the post unless you click to display it.