Quote - Once before, I suggested an (anonymous) tally of ‘ignores.’ That could be an educational tool. Ideally, you’d get a tally by thread or even by post, so you could see that calling Vickie a drug addled trollop was hugely unpopular.

I thought an ignore tally could be useful, if the display says that 150 users have chosen to ignore everything that you type, then maybe, just maybe, you might reconsider your behaviour on the forum. It's sorta the opposite of having a lot of Facebook friends or 'likes'. That might be less susceptible to abuse than some other systems I've seen. 

The Messiah forums (Setup tab) have a feature where you can assign a positive or negative 'karma' point to a member for a particular post. This means that helpful forum regulars have positive 'karma' ratings in the hundreds, and jerks get the opposite. I remember around the time of that $10 promo there was an objectionable newb there who only had a dozen or so posts to his name but he had already clocked up about -100 karma points.

The modo forums had a 'signal' (good) rating that you could assign to a post with good technical info or a 'noise' (bad) rating for useless bitching or OT stuff. The intention was to make useful threads float to the top of the forum and the useless ones sink out of sight. They dropped the 'noise' option because people with personal grudges could seek out every single post from another user just to give it a 'noise' score regardless of what it said. It became just another way to fight.