MattIPB

Your lucky your post is not on my board and you need to take lessons on how to be nice to people.

Your interpretation of what WallBase said is your own. I take it to mean that so far, he's had no problems with it so to him, it's working perfectly.

So how about calming down some, it was really unnecessary to call him ignorant.

In the words of Rodney King, "Can we all just get along?"

True, but all you have to do is inform your community about the reputation system and let them know how to use it. The more people use it, the more people that will use it (as they see the numbers next to posts going up). It just has to catch on.

Regardless, that's more of a problem with the reputation system as a whole than my suggestion in particular.

And my post is at 2 points now :P

I have a small request to make for future updates to IPB (hopefully 3.0.1 :P).

I would like to see the option to change the default post view threshold for members, as discussed here. The default is "Currently viewing all posts", but I would like to be able to change this to a custom threshold of "Hiding all posts below -3 points" by default (or however many points you choose).

This would be a great way for the community to actively moderate topics, by negative voting on unsuitable posts. Once enough negative votes have been made, the post will be hidden. Sort of like "burying" on Digg.