I think this community would benefit from a reputation system on the board..

It works quite well on other forums and distinguishes and kind of rewards the people in the community that put in effort.

Rep System for Invision

seems like a good idea to me.

i dont think its such a great idea. a lot of other forums ive been to with the reputation system in place has a lot of hostility associated with it. i think with a community like ours, which is pretty obvious in my opinion, its more a resource and to help others, rather than determine whos good and whos a ******.

i agree with lateralus.
maybe its because i am always the one who needs helps.

but on the other hand, the efforts of those who contributed should be acknowledged by forum members too!

Rather than this, we could have a 'thanks' function in which users thank the poster for a helpful/insightful post, etc.

That sounds pretty good.

In the meantime though, if you are not aware, you can go to a member's profile and rate them by clicking the amount of stars on the left hand side.

On that note, thanks to those that have voted me. I appreciate my rating

5 stars!!
you totally deserve it Daryl!

where are my stars hahaha

I really like the "thanks" idea over the rep system!

A simple button with a thumbs up next to each post would be cool. Sort like the facebook thing that has a "i like this" button... There is no need for an "I dont like this".

To resurrect this thread a bit, I have seen that the Toyota Nation forum has recently integrated a 'thanks' feature to their forum and it seems to me like it would be a great idea. Their reasoning behind it is reduce the number of thread cluttering posts that are there just to simply say thanks where appropriate. It's also to reduce post boosting where a singe word thanks reply can gain you an extra post to your count.

They obviously use a different forum system there, but I was curious to see if the Invision Power Board can do so as well. I'm not sure what version is being run here, but if such a feature can be added as detailed in the below link, that would be excellent I reckon. The feature below is a version 2.2 and 2.3 feature, so I'm not sure if this board is newer than that. Also, that attached mod has some shocking spelling mistakes, LOL.

Thanks Advanced 2.2

Thanks Mod Light - ajax

Edit: Man, if this board is version 3.0 or above and this following mod can be used.... I will even pay for it:

[EN30] Ajax Thanks v1.0.2

Please, please, please, please, please.

Edit 2: Looks like this board is more than likely version 2.x

maybe a traders rating as well, if someone has sold something and the buyer is happy soughta thing