Thanks Mark, but from my point of view as a user it's a bug that you
can't rate your own topics.
I use a forum for a popular CAD package which has a section for posting ideas about the program's development. I don't always rate mine 5 stars; sometimes I'm just posting an idea to see what others think. Sometimes I rate other people's ideas higher than my own. But now I can't rate mine at all since upgrading to v7. And the beauty about rating your own is that it encourages others to use the rating system, which I have to say is not very visible as it stands.
For a much better implementation of a forum rating system see WordPress':
http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/
