hi everybody
i think all time about how can evaluate users in correct way. number of posts is not good way to find an active user because they try to post for increase their ranks so SPAMMING in site and moderators lost many times to remove , modify , caution to users ,... .
i think about a way to rank users in another way and find better one:
put a rating system for users and their posts is very good for evaluate them.
for example moderators ( or some groups ) can rate posts in forum ( not the whole topic but the individual posts !!) rate comments , rate news submitted and so on then all rating save in user profile at a box and ranking system base on the rate of each user.
i need your idea. and developers idea for possiblity of this.
regards

Allowing users to rank individual posts... sounds like a great idea!

You could roll up this ranking in a number of useful ways. article ranking, forum ranking and even user ranking. People could then work for a high "PostRank" (can I trademark this? ) next to their name.

I agee, this will also eliminate bandwidth with "Me Too" messages and other banter generated just to increase post #s.

If this is to work, ranking would have to be easy for the end user. It think it should be similar to how the rating in Windows Media Player works, where there are 5 hollow stars. When you put the mouse over the first star and it fills in. When you place the mouse over the second star, the first two fills in, etc. It just takes a single click on the star to register a rating. Allowing a user to adjust their rating would also be useful.

Then again... I'm only posting this message so that I can increase my number of posts next to my name.