I've found a nice mod that is similar to what I've seen on some other forums regarding "reputation" and such.
Basically, every individual post can now be rated as either good (helpful) or bad (lousy). If a post is considered really bad, you can have it hidden, grayed out, etc. Check your Profile information --> Look and Layout Preferences for:
Voted posts: What to do with posts scoring -5 or less?As users post good posts, their reputation increases and the total score is added to their name. I've decided that I am going to use this to replace the current "gold" system as it is more flexible and allows nice records on individual posts. I've also decided that, although it was there on our beloved CC
, I'm not going to try and reduplicate the gold shop.
Feel free to mark up any posts you want, old and new! The buttons are Thumbs Up/Down in the middle of the header of each post. Expect that when I have time I will convert the current gold to rep points. You can still use the gold smiley to show appreciation.