too many ---uvulas--- (including me) on here to have a rep system. It becomes an epeen contest for some reason. I feel like a dick because I was going around upvoting people for giving constructive criticism , good technical advice, etc when I guess I was just supposed to be randomly upping people and finding ways to downvote others.
How many days did we have the toy for? When it's new and shiny it's going to get played with, once that passes it settles into a useful too. What was the damage? A few extra rep here and there?
Here's a new idea:
Under the avatar list the number of post likes a person has and their number of followers. Between those two numbers I think it could be useful. People see Ond or Pixel poking around and notice they have a few thousand followers it's gets a message across that they're doing some cool stuff. People see PL1 with a few thousand post likes and they know he puts out good poop. Likes linked to posts, followers linked to users. No dislike, no DO NOT FOLLOW, keep it positive.
Sure I'll follow my friends and like good posts, that's the idea - that way it creates a useful web of information.
Oh and for chrissakes somebody rein in that persnickity forum admin/siteowner/sasquatch