By golly, you're right. I misread your post. You did say "moderation" and not "moderators." My apologies.
I favor the Slashdot-like approach of allowing moderators to mark posts up or down and allowing users to set their filters to see whatever quality level they want.
So could the advertisers target a certain rating? You guys just don't get it... Its all about readership...its a numbers game in the advertising revenue game... All of this crap aint gonna happen... jOe/Baron would never put up Skalpzy's IP address anyways....(another brilliant idea) Michael B.
the implications for novelty items on the web site would be huge... i.e., with a poster rating system, ET could have indicators showing market sentiment polls from users with certain rating thresholds.. but i think that Barron needs more collaborators to make such a big move...
Aint this the truth! ET is so littered with aliases that the site is becoming a garbage dump. It's been like this for most of the year, and Baron doesn't seem to mind one bit.
Today I really think and realise this rating feature on ET would be very important, not only a great feature like many first tier forums are doing, but also a must feature particularly for an investment/ speculation related forum that basically provides information involving personal financial risks. With this rating feature, when some traders (usually experienced and profitable ones) see a particular post supplying/ providing obviously problematic/ wrong/ risky advice, however none so far have voted negative rating for the post, they might feel the need to submit (using minimum time for just a click) their negative rating for it, without any potential hassles of creating unnecessary arguments (spending their useful time) with any posters.