Okay, heres a good topic for high traffic boards, where theres millions of garbage posts, an option for a moderator or admin, or maybe even users to rate a message or thread from a combo just select 0-10, this could have ip tracking so people couldnt spam the vote's the ip's could be relased once a day, to save space, just something kinda simple i think that could be kind of cool, for users who are looking for very in-topic content that has little opinions and stuff, just straight to the point, this of course should be an option, its a fairly simple idea but i dont know if people would reallly like it, i dont know it depends on the type of board.


Kaoslord

Sounds like what Slashdot implemented.

It's certainly an interesting idea, but I think it's generally not in line with what Rick has stated about keeping wwwthreads fast and non-bloated. Particularly since this wouldn't be useful for the majority of people. However, if you think it's useful enough, you might want to add the functionality yourself and share it with everyone.

Another way of rating was to have a "hits" field in the messagetable. Each specific select on a message would increment it's hits value. You could then choose to sort messages in a board by "popularity" just like you can sort by date (maybe a combination of them would be best.
Just an idea

I would acutually prefer a "person" rating.
That way you build your "credentials" by writing good messages.

I like that!!!!! Great idea. But you'd have to make sure that the person doing the voting can't vote again.

But of course.
And one shouldn't be able to rate oneselves.
And in every post the persons "rating" should be visible.

The Slashdot rating system is actually pretty nice. But in lieu of a rating system, it would be nice to be able to add obnoxious or boring posters to a personal kill list, thereby filtering them out for that one user. Personally, I prefer such a system to a ratings system because it doesn't run the risk of imposing the majority's tastes on individual users.

BTW, I'm very impressed with WWWThreads so far. The only other web-based BBS system I've seen that is on a comparable level is Discus, which is sadly no longer free.

I'm using one of my categories for a 'feature/bug tracking/development' kind of thing..

I'd like a prioritizing and project management module, something scalable and universal. It might also include GD/IMagick graphing or something.

Basically, so myself and other employees can collectively link, group/regroup posts and assign values to them.

The goal being that the module can be used a little or as much, given the application. One person just uses 'polling/rating' .. another uses graphing and other groupware'ish functions.

Have you try Anyboard? I think Anyboard's interface is much more usable than
Discuss, although the freeware version disabled some important features.

The bad thing about Anyboard is that unlike wwwthreads, it uses html instead of database to store
messages, however there are many good features like highly customizable, good security levels,
good archiving funcitons (this is very essential for formal discussions).

I would really like to see wwwthreads to do better than Anyboard, cos Anyboard is *very* expensive...
US$2995 for 500 forums licence...

reference:
http://www.netbula.com/anyboard/anyboard.html