There's already thread voting. I guess it would be useful if more people actually used it to rate crappy threads with one star and great threads with 5 stars. One or two votes usually don't guarantee a meaningful rating.

I have a problem with anonymous systems like that. I don't use thread voting on principal .

My dad was Canadian, so I must disqualify myself.

By the way, glad to have you active again smarshy. And was that you snooping around my LinkedIn profile? If so... find any errors?

Good to be back, old son.

I believe it may have been. Blame DNeary. Nope, no errors I could see from my glimpse. I'll send you an invite

Actually, no.

I (partly) agree with the posters that say people would abuse it. Maybe they will. Still, there are ways to prevent it that weren't listed(I think. I'm not reading that now)

For example, one could be limited to one or two "no, thanks" per thread, so that it can't be used like the "thanks" now, every post. Voting No again removes previous No.

Bugs.Maemo.org uses a per-project limit of 20 votes. Nice idea, but bad implementation (Nokia wants to count people, so it works like that). However, Borland gives a user 5 votes. For ever. You want a bug fixed, you cast a vote, you have 4 left. If you have voted for 5 bugs, then you have to decide where you want the focus. Fix the new one or keep the old?

This builds a very, very effective system because a bug with 20 votes means that either 20 people feel this is quite important or 5 people are actually dieing out there.

E.g. One could have -say- 3 "no"s a day, more if active members that run around doing stuff. Mods have unlimited. You browse the forum, find the lolzer, cast your -1, likely anonymously so you can still help the user without resentment (though why you would care after modded down?).

Anyway, for example a repost of a well-known problem could be answered with a link to the talk thread relevant, them modded down by 1. This way, the next person that sees "1.1 doesn't have 3G! [1 reply] [-1]" knows it's been taken care of.

Mods could remove the -1 of other users should they run into a bad mod or a misunderstood issue.

I have other ideas on how to keep this from being rampant, still, troll-like posts would be quickly buried and that alone is sorta worthwhile.

Grammar whinging will always exist, regardless of what system anyone implements.

Drat. Double drat.

Well, like that, I made a suggestion in a thread, bu suggested +1 -1 and Thanks to separate helpers from agreeing.

I vote we only allow that to be spelled "whining".

Talk.maemo forum is growing very fast.
I think it is now time to implement "number of views" next to each topic just like all the other websites out there and also to increase the topics per page by 5 at least for each page.

The way things are right now you can make an important topic that maybe 10,000 people want to talk about but it gets covered quickly.

Start a thread, get 30 posts come back 4 hours later, it's gone on page 5, you can't see it.

P.S.
Put me on your ignore list and I will point out every mistake you make as a group.

That's because the thread never gets hidden and because it's not fine-grained enough.

I hate to say it, but "-1, troll" is starting to be quite attractive. I really wish this would lead to something nicer than "I know, let's copy THEM".