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Just throwing out an idea here... but what about one of those 5 star systems where each user can vote once for each post. Since its an active area on the page its not like you need to do anything more than select the number of stars as you are reading - you don’t have to leave the page you are reading.
Then you can skip bad posts when it states 2 out of 50 people found this post useful or this post was given an average of 1 star from 80 people.
To rank the user you can take an average of the number of posts and the average star ranking from each post. From that you can see who is really useful or not.
This system gives a two useful statistics to other users. It shows if the next thread I’m about to read is worth my time. And it shows if a particular user is worth my time to respond.
Those with good rankings aren’t going to risk posting crap since the low star rating for the crap post will bring down their overall rankings.
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